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# 1  
Old 05-29-2007
cut First charecter in any string
I wannt to cut first char of any string.

str=A2465443

out put will be.
str1=A
str2=2465443.
I tried
str2=${?%srt}
str1=${str#$str2}

it is not working.
# 2  
Old 05-29-2007
Code:
# var="something"
# echo ${var:0:1}
s

# 3  
Old 05-29-2007
try this
echo "A1234" | cut -c 2-

echo "A1234" | cut -c 0-1
# 4  
Old 05-29-2007
Code:
$ str=A2465443
$ str2=${str#?}
$ str1=${str%$str2}
$ echo "<$str>=<$str1><$str2>"
<A2465443>=<A><2465443>
$

Jean-Pierre.
# 5  
Old 05-29-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by rinku
I wannt to cut first char of any string.

str=A2465443

out put will be.
str1=A
str2=2465443.
I tried
str2=${?%srt}
str1=${str#$str2}

it is not working.
str2=${str#?}
str1=${str%$str2}

$ echo $str1
A
$ echo $str2
2465443
# 6  
Old 05-29-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by ghostdog74
Code:
# var="something"
# echo ${var:0:1}
s

This will not work in Korn shell
# 7  
Old 05-29-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by praveenkumar_l
This will not work in Korn shell
It will work in ksh93 and some other recent Korn shell variants.

Code:
$ print ${.sh.version}
Version M-12/28/93d
$ echo ${var:0:1}
s


Another (portable Smilie? ) variant:

Code:
printf "%.1s\n" "$var"

Last edited by radoulov; 05-29-2007 at 08:32 AM..
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