How to read the nth character from the line.?

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I have Index Line and I tried to get the 9th character from the file and to check the character is "|" or not.
Shell Scripting.

Sample Index file.

"91799489|K8E|188.004.A.917994892.1099R.c.01.pdf|2013|10/15/2014|002|B|C|C"
"917994898|K8E|188.004.A.917994892.1099R.c.01.pdf|2013|10/15/2014|002|B|C|C"
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FIRSTLINE=`head -n 1 $indexFile

   while read -r line
   do
   id = cut -c 9 $FIRSTLINE
   echo $id 
done < "$indexFile"
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