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Bryan D. Quinn
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‎08-11-2005 07:10 AM

‎08-11-2005 07:10 AM

Re: scanning the contents of a variable

Thanks again everybody...it has been quite a while since I have been out here on the forums. You guys just made me realize what I have been missing.

Thanks for getting me straight Mel!
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Sandman!
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‎08-11-2005 07:10 AM

‎08-11-2005 07:10 AM

Re: scanning the contents of a variable

IMHO...you needs are well met by the substr function within awk. Lets say you wanted the string of characters between positions 13-20 contained in VAR:

# echo $VAR | awk '{print substr($0,13,20)}'

cheers!
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