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Re: the n-th character from a string
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Paul Smith |
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Re: the n-th character from a string |
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Sat, 31 May 2014 10:44:20 -0400 |
On Sat, 2014-05-31 at 01:09 -0700, patrick wrote:
> is there any way for obtain the n-th charcter from a string?
There are no built-in functions to do it. You can use external programs
like "cut", invoked by the $(shell ...) program.
Alternatively you can use the GMSL: http://gmsl.sourceforge.net/
I haven't looked into it closely but there's a substr function which
appears to do what you want.