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# 15  
Old 01-18-2010
Code:
${F:0:9} # extracts 9 chars from pos 0 from string $F.
${F:9} # extracts from pos 9 to end.

If this doesn't work yous should use a sed or awk expression to perform that.
Something like
Code:
NEW=$(echo $F | sed "s/REPORT/REPORT.$N/")

# 16  
Old 01-18-2010
well I am not really sure why the other command didn't work and I figured you were pulling character positions with the 0 and 9.. but sed seems to work.

I was reading online about ksh versions last night and I ran into a couple articles regarding ksh93 and support for using substrings. The version currently on the sy stem is M-11/16/88f, I am assuming it is something like ksh88 but I had to get to bed last night so I didn't finish my research.

Well thank you guys for all of your help, I guess I am going to use sed. If anyone has any ideas though as to why it may not have worked feel free to share.

Thanks again
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