Remove Last Character 1

[Michael42]

Hello,

In a Bourne shell script running on Solaris 8 I have a string variable (MYSTRING="A,B,C,D,") that always ends in a comma.

How can I remove this last character from my string variable?

Thanks,

Michael42

 

[PHV]

NEWSTRING=`expr "$MYSTRING" : '\(.*\),'`

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[Michael42]

PHV,

Thanks, that works perfect!

-Michael42