Thanks very much for this. Jim
----- Original Message ----- From: "Gilgamesh Nootebos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Cygwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Jim George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 1:30 PM Subject: Re: substr > Michael A Chase wrote: > > On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 07:05:06 +0100 Jim George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >> can someone tell me which package provides the substr command line > >>routine? > > > > In this case, you probably want sed, gawk, or Perl, there is no UNIX > > command 'substr'. > > from the commandline you can use 'expr substr <string> <begin> <length>' > > it's crude and OT but I just happened to need it today so I remembered this. > > -- > Gilgamesh Nootebos (Elegant Relational Development) > @: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
