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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Help with Removing extra characters in Filename Post 302469003 by zaxxon on Thursday 4th of November 2010 11:31:44 AM
Old 11-04-2010
Code:
$> while read LINE; do echo ${LINE%%.*}; done < infile
ABC_20101
ABD_20103
ABE_20107

If the input comes from a directory instead of a text file it could look like this:
Code:
$> for file in AB*; do echo ${file%%.*}; done
ABC_20101
ABD_20103
ABE_20107

 

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Locale::getPrimaryLanguage - Gets the primary language for the input locale

	Object oriented style

SYNOPSIS
publicstatic string Locale::getPrimaryLanguage (string $locale) DESCRIPTION
Procedural style string locale_get_primary_language (string $locale) Gets the primary language for the input locale PARAMETERS
o $locale - The locale to extract the primary language code from RETURN VALUES
The language code associated with the language or NULL in case of error. EXAMPLES
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