[ale] I am an idiot

[Wandered Inn]

> Chris Fowler wrote:
> 
> #!/bin/ksh
> #
> STRING="hello|goodbye"
> 
> VAR1=`echo $STRING | cut -d'\|' -f1`
> VAR2=`echo $STRING | cut -d'\|' -f2`
> 
> #END

Noticed you used ksh, this might be a bit faster:
#!/bin/ksh

var="hello|world"

var1=${var#*\|}

var2=${var%\|*}

You could probably rid yourself of having to escape the delimiter if you
used something else.  That effort is left for your exercise. :)

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Lynn [mailto:jason_lynn_ at hotmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 5:03 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: [ale] I am an idiot
> 
> Now that that's out of the way... here's my problem.
> 
> #!/bin/ksh
> #
> echo AARGH!
> exit 0
> 
> I need some way to do some basic string manipulation that works both
> for
> Linux and Solaris (out of the box).  I basically need to take a string
> like
> "hello|goodbye" and split that string into two components, hello and
> goodbye
> (assign them to shell variables, etc.) by a delimeter such as '|'.  I
> thought everything was going well when I used expr to do just that.
> No
> problems in Linux.  It appears, though, that functions like substr,
> length,
> etc are NOT supported in sparc Solaris.  So I looked into awk and sed
> (for
> the first time), which only served to piss me off even more.  Can
> anyone
> help me with this one?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Jason
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