Stripping first Character 1

[GOSCO]

I have a file of names and I want to strip the first letter off each name.

e.g.

FILE

andrew
john
peter

would return a file:

a;ndrew;andrew
j;ohn;john
p;eter;peter

 

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GOSCO:

Here's an awk solution:

awk ' {
fc=substr($1, 1, 1)
fl=substr($1, 2, length($1))
printf("%s;%s;%s\n", fc, fl, $1);
} ' < file

fc is the first character of field 1
fl is the second character to the end of field 1.


Regards,

Ed

 

[GOSCO]

Ed, thankyou works like a treat. I must admit awks always scared me a bit. I was trying to solve the problem using shell script, which as you can probably guess proved a bit much...

 

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GOSCO:

Thank you for the compliment! I appreciate it.

The best tool for solving any unix problem is probably the one you know. You might also want to post questions like this in the Unix Scripting, General Unix discussion, or even the Perl forums.

You'll probably get more varied answers than in just the SCO forum.

Regards,

Ed