Remove "/" from a string

Hi,

I've a string "200910/22-101010" ( this is date and time string YYYYMMDD/HHMMSS format) , how can i remove "/" and assign it to a new variable a value of 20091022 only

thanks

echo 200910/22-101010 | sed "s/\///"

string=200910/22-101010

temp=${string%-*}
IFS=/ read a b <<EOF
$temp
EOF

newvar=$a$b
string="200910/22-101010"
 
echo ${string%-*}|tr -d "/"
20091022

For completeness: -

new_variable=$(echo ${string%-*}|tr -d "/")
echo $new_variable                         
20091022
foo="200910/22-101010"
foo=${foo%%-*}
foo=${foo//\//}
echo $foo
ds="200910/22-101010"

posix:

ds=${ds%-*}
newvar=${ds%/*}${ds#*/}

ksh/bash:

ds=${ds%-*}
newvar=${ds/\/}

tr:

newvar=$(echo ${ds%-*}|tr -d '/')

sed:

newvar=$(echo $ds|sed 's|/||;s|-.*||')
-or-
newvar=$(echo $ds|sed 's|/\(..\).*|\1|')

awk:

newvar=$(echo $ds|awk -F '[/-]' '{print $1$2}')
$ foo=${foo//\//}
echo $foo$ $ Syntax error: Bad substitution