Re: awk manipulating string

On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 06:47:41AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > How do you remove the last character of a string in awk? Here's one way: awk 'BEGIN { x = "Hello!"; print substr(x, 0, length(x) - 1)}' Can't think of anything better quickly... HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah -- To UNSU

Re: awk manipulating string

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > How do you remove the last character of a string in awk? > Did not test, but substr(, 0, length() - 1) should work, or should be close to what you want. -- Horngren's Observation: Among economists, the real world is often a special case. Eduardo M K

awk manipulating string

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