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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Need to remove first and last character using sed Post 303037574 by wisecracker on Tuesday 6th of August 2019 11:06:08 AM
Old 08-06-2019
POSIX shell, 'sh', compliant:-

Longhand using OSX 10.14.3, default bash terminal:
Code:
Last login: Tue Aug  6 15:56:39 on ttys000
AMIGA:amiga~> echo ',001E:001F,,,02EE,0FED:0FEF,' > /tmp/text
AMIGA:amiga~> text=$( cat /tmp/text )
AMIGA:amiga~> text=${text#?}; text=${text%?}
AMIGA:amiga~> echo "${text}"
001E:001F,,,02EE,0FED:0FEF
AMIGA:amiga~> _

 

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Name
       DwtSTextSetString - Sets the text string in the simple text widget.

Syntax
       void DwtSTextSetString(widget, value)
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Arguments
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       value	 Specifies the text that replaces all text in the current text widget window.

Description
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See Also
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