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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Testing the last character in a string Post 53431 by borncrazy on Wednesday 14th of July 2004 06:21:53 PM
Old 07-14-2004
Last character of a string

Hi,

I need to find the last character of a string. I am using the same code as Perderabo suggested.

I am trying to get the last character 1 in the string mentioned in the code

for this i am trying something like this:

str="fortest_rev_1_1.csv"
strlen=${#str}
strlen1=`expr $strlen - 4`
s=$str|cut -c1-$strlen1
lastchar=${s#${s%?}}
echo $lastchar

I am using bash. The problem is that it does not throw any error neither displays the result. Am i doing anything wrong here.

Help is appreciated
 

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MB_STRTOUPPER(3)							 1							  MB_STRTOUPPER(3)

mb_strtoupper - Make a string uppercase

SYNOPSIS
string mb_strtoupper (string $str, [string $encoding = mb_internal_encoding()]) DESCRIPTION
Returns $str with all alphabetic characters converted to uppercase. PARAMETERS
o $str - The string being uppercased. o $encoding -The $encoding parameter is the character encoding. If it is omitted, the internal character encoding value will be used. RETURN VALUES
$str with all alphabetic characters converted to uppercase. UNICODE
For more information about the Unicode properties, please see http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr21/. By contrast to strtoupper(3), 'alphabetic' is determined by the Unicode character properties. Thus the behaviour of this function is not affected by locale settings and it can convert any characters that have 'alphabetic' property, such as a-umlaut (a). EXAMPLES
Example #1 mb_strtoupper(3) example <?php $str = "Mary Had A Little Lamb and She LOVED It So"; $str = mb_strtoupper($str); echo $str; // Prints MARY HAD A LITTLE LAMB AND SHE LOVED IT SO ?> Example #2 mb_strtoupper(3) example with non-Latin UTF-8 text <?php $str = "Txiotn a nE Baos unuvn yn, dpaokeCei unp vw0po kuvs"; $str = mb_strtoupper($st_, 'UTF-8'); _ _ _ _ echo $str; // Prints TXI>TH A/TTHH BAO> YHMNH | H, /PA>KE/EI YTTP NOOPO KYN> ?> SEE ALSO
mb_strtolower(3), mb_convert_case(3), strtoupper(3). PHP Documentation Group MB_STRTOUPPER(3)
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