How to I get the nth character from a string in shell script. For instance, I have a string London. I want to get, say the first character (L) from the string. How do I do this in unix shell?
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I need a script for...
how to find a position of column data and print some string in the next line and same position
position should find based on *HEADER8* in text
for ex: ord123 abs 123 987HEADER89 test234
ord124 abc 124 987HEADER88 test235
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I am writing a script and in this script at one point i need to replace a character in a particular position in a string for example:
in the string "mystery" i would need to replace the 3rd position to an "r" so the string becomes... (3 Replies)
Suppose there are two files:
A, format is like:
line1 12
line2 33
line3 6
...
B, format is like:
>header
taaccctaaccctaaccctaacccaaccccaccccaaccccaaccccaac
ccaaccctaaccctaaccctaacccaaccctaaccctaaccctaacccaa
ccctcaccctcaccctcaccctcaccctcaccctcaccctcaccctaacc... (1 Reply)
Hi,
i want find the character '-' in a file from position 284-298, if it occurs i need to replace it with 'O ' for the position in the file. How to do that using SED command.
thanks in advance,
Sara (9 Replies)
I see a millioin ways to do this with echo, but what I wan to do is assign a variable the "nth" character of an incoming parameter to a ksh script.
$1 will be "pia"
I need to assign the first character to stmttype. (10 Replies)
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XmTextPosToXY(library call) XmTextPosToXY(library call)
NAME
XmTextPosToXY -- A Text function that accesses the x and y position of a character position
SYNOPSIS
#include <Xm/Text.h>
Boolean XmTextPosToXY(
Widget widget,
XmTextPosition position,
Position *x,
Position *y);
DESCRIPTION
XmTextPosToXY accesses the x and y position, relative to the upper left corner of the Text widget, of a given character position in the
text buffer.
In the case of horizontal writing, the position is the origin of the character. In the case of vertical writing, the position is the verti-
cal origin of the character.
widget Specifies the Text widget ID
position Specifies the character position in the text for which the x and y position is accessed. This is an integer number of characters
from the beginning of the buffer. The first character position is 0 (zero).
x Specifies the pointer in which the x position is returned. The returned position is the distance from the left side of the wid-
get to the left border of the character. This value is meaningful only if the function returns True.
y Specifies the pointer in which the y position is returned. The returned position is the distance from the top of the widget to
the character's baseline. This value is meaningful only if the function returns True.
For a complete definition of Text and its associated resources, see XmText(3).
RETURN
This function returns True if the character position is displayed in the Text widget; otherwise, it returns False, and no x or y value is
returned.
RELATED XmText(3).
XmTextPosToXY(library call)