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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers splitting strings Post 47483 by oombera on Wednesday 11th of February 2004 11:51:50 AM
Old 02-11-2004
Separate Number from String

Perderabo just posted a solution to a problem very similar to this...

To get the beginning part (with the numbers) use:

a="166Mhz"; echo ${a%%[A-Za-z]*}

To get the ending part (with the letters) use:

a="166Mhz"; echo ${a##*[0-9]}
 

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