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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Extract string between two special chracters Post 303012045 by SIMMS7400 on Sunday 28th of January 2018 12:11:46 PM
Old 01-28-2018
Hi Don -

Thank you so much!

That worked like a charm and it's great to know its adaptable across a few different OS's.

Code:
_PBCS_URL=${_PBCS_URL_TST}; STRING=${_PBCS_URL##*-}; _DOMAIN=${STRING%%.*}

RudiC and Aia, both of those options worked great too!
 

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