From: Buddy Mills (ramill@wm.edu)
Date: Tue May 24 2005 - 15:14:16 EDT
Hello all, This is hard to explain but I will try.
I am trying to send a string of variable to a file used later in second program. The second program is expecting to see each variable in a certain position(s) The problem arises when I have a variable that is a random length.
Example
test=`cat /kfile|cut -c5-11`
name=`cat /kfile|cut -c12-42`
test2=`cat /kfile|cut -c1-4`
kfile
testtest012lastname,firstm (name,firstm varies)
echo $test$name$test2 > newfile
When $name varies in size, even thought I cut the same position including blanks, the blanks are not represented in the outputfile (newfile) which then put "test2" in the wrong position.
I have done this before, but have since misplace the solution.
Thanks in advance,
Buddy Mills
The College of William and Mary
757-221-2099 ramill@wm.edu
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