Cut Final 2 Characters of String

[danhodges99]

Hi all,

I need to get rid of the final two characters of a string, eg:

myString='14504'

mymyNewString='145'

If you see what I mean...
The string will be ever changing, so an't just chop out the '04', needs to be the last two characters, any help is greatly appreciated!

 

[dickiebird]

try this ( untested)
LenMystr=${#MyString} # get length of the string
NewString=`echo $MyString|awk '{print substr($0,1,'"$LenMystr"' - 2)}'`

Dickie Bird (-)))

 

[vgersh99]

#!/bin/ksh

a='14504'

echo "a->[${a}] b->[${a%%??}]"


vlad
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