[ale] I am an idiot

[Jason Lynn]

THANK YOU!


>From: Chris Fowler <ChrisF at computone.com>
>To: 'Jason Lynn' <jason_lynn_ at hotmail.com>, ale at ale.org
>Subject: RE: [ale] I am an idiot
>Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 17:12:17 -0400
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>#!/bin/ksh
>#
>STRING="hello|goodbye"
>
>VAR1=`echo $STRING | cut -d'\|' -f1`
>VAR2=`echo $STRING | cut -d'\|' -f2`
>
>#END
>
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>-----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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