Hi Eric,
thanks for the suggestion. I had considered the idea for a second, but
failed to see the nontrivial half.
* Eric Blake wrote on Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 02:49:40PM CEST:
> tmp=${1#?}
> patt=
> i=2
> while test $i -lt ${#1}; do
> patt="?$patt"
If the parameter may be expected to be very long (which I don't think it
will be) then
func_append patt '?'
would be useful here, and even if not, appending rather than prepending
here helps with current bash.
> i=$((i+1))
> done
> result=${tmp%$patt}
Cheers,
Ralf
