Hello,
ksh88 doesn't support ${var:x:y}.
Any alternatives to get substring ?
thanks
Vilius
Hello,
ksh88 doesn't support ${var:x:y}.
Any alternatives to get substring ?
thanks
Vilius
An alternative is to use cut, something like:
myvar=$(echo $var | cut -c2-5)
There is no direct way, but you could do something like this
#!/bin/ksh
function substring
{
typeset string="$1" out
typeset -i offset=$2 length=$3
while (( offset > 0 ))
do
string="${string#?}"
(( offset = offset - 1 ))
done
while (( length > 0 ))
do
out="$out${string%${string#?}}"
string="${string#?}"
(( length = length - 1 ))
done
print "$out"
}
substring abcdefghij 2 4