split string help

senthilk615 · March 27, 2006, 4:05pm

could anyone help in running split cmd

split("String1,outputArray,"delimiter);
with sample script?.

for eg i have abc-def-ghi-sdf-

my ultimate aim of asking this is i have a string containing hypens,
i want to get the string before last n(2) Hypens

rajeeb_d · March 27, 2006, 4:42pm

Could you give an example of the string and how you want it to look finally.

vgersh99 · March 27, 2006, 4:42pm

echo 'abc-def-ghi-sdf-' | nawk -F- -v OFS=- -v num=2 '{NF-=num; $1=$1; print}'

senthilk615 · March 27, 2006, 5:24pm

i get ksh: nawk: not found error. i am using sunOS v5.8

vgersh99 · March 27, 2006, 5:43pm

tried locating '/usr/bin/nawk' and/or '/usr/xpg4/bin/awk' ?