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Old 01-13-2010
Split a word in short words
Dear,

Can somebody help me with this?

I have a variable

Code:
TGT=T2DIRUPDAZ20070326VA

I want to get in variables some part of TGT. like this.

Code:
TGT1=UPDA
TGT2=20070326
TGT3= VA

These three variables have fixe position in variable TGT.

Can you help me with shell expression to get these three variables(TGT1,TGT2,TGT3) from TGT ?

Thanks.
Last edited by zaxxon; 01-13-2010 at 07:39 AM.. Reason: use code tags please, ty
# 2  
Old 01-13-2010
Code:
#! /bin/bash

TGT=T2DIRUPDAZ20070326VA;
TG1=${TGT:5:4};
TG2=${TGT:10:8};
TG3=${TGT:18};
echo $TG1 $TG2 $TG3;

# 3  
Old 01-13-2010
Possible way with awk:
Code:
$> TGT=T2DIRUPDAZ20070326VA
$> TGT1=`echo $TGT| awk '{print(substr($0,6,4))}'`
$> echo $TGT1
UPDA

The 2 other should be no problem now.
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