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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting cut command issue from a line of text Post 302476754 by asutoshch on Thursday 2nd of December 2010 12:04:41 PM
Old 12-02-2010
cut command issue from a line of text

Hi,
I got a line of text which has spaces in between and it is a long stream of characters. I want to extract the text from certain position. Below is the line and I want to take out 3 characters from 86 to 88 character position. In this line space is also a character. However when using cut command it excludes the spaces and I got wrong result.
Code:
LINE="AX80633030PHLIAD20209 1010104711411153             0054          000050000      11  PHLIAD1013112320100134-0003+003007000103+0033ER4ER4037012 N835HK0698D7   A2           A2E     05201011302010113020101130201011300000500000240000000TETE20101130NN8063201011300925IAD0004800045     5"
STR1=`echo $LINE | cut -c 86-88`
echo $STR1

It simply does not work. Can you pl help me with any alternative solution ?

Regards
Asutosh
 

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XmTextSetSource(3X)													       XmTextSetSource(3X)

NAME
XmTextSetSource - A Text function that sets the source of the widget SYNOPSIS
#include <Xm/Text.h> void XmTextSetSource (widget, source, top_character, cursor_position) Widget widget; XmTextSource source; XmTextPosition top_character; XmTextPosition cursor_position; DESCRIPTION
XmTextSetSource sets the source of the Text widget. Text widgets can share sources of text so that editing in one widget is reflected in another. This function sets the source of one widget so that it can share the source of another widget. Setting a new text source destroys the old text source if no other Text widgets are using that source. To replace a text source but keep it for later use, create an unmanaged Text widget and set its source to the text source you want to keep. Specifies the Text widget ID Speci- fies the source with which the widget displays text. This can be a value returned by the XmTextGetSource(3X) function. If no source is specified, the widget creates a default string source. Specifies the position in the text to display at the top of the widget. This is an integer number of characters from the beginning of the text buffer. The first character position is 0. Specifies the position in the text at which the insert cursor is located. This is an integer number of characters from the beginning of the text buffer. The first character position is 0. For a complete definition of Text and its associated resources, see XmText(3X). SEE ALSO
XmText(3X) XmTextSetSource(3X)
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