first 3 letters of a VAR in ksh? 2

[jouell]

Hi,

Does ksh allow me to return "Sep" if my variable is September (I am not using the date command in the script) ?

I.E.

month=September
echo $month{1-3} or something?

Didnt find it in man for ksh.

tks!
-john

 

[PHV]

Something like this ?
typeset -L3 y=$month;echo $y

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[vgersh99]

#!/bin/ksh
echo "${month%${month#???}}"

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[PHV]

Yet another way:
expr substr $month 1 3

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[jouell]

Thanks for the fast responses!!! That is the ticket!
-john

 

[imayankee]

Using ksh93:

# month=September
# print $month
September
# print ${month:0:3}
Sep