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mibwalker April 3, 2003 at 14:00:47 Pacific
Specs: AIX 4.1, rs6000

I would like to know if there is a way or a script that would allow me to read a text string and then output it in reverse order.
Example:
for i in `cat $1`
do
print $i
done
If i in is "Test" I would like the output to be "tseT"


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April 3, 2003 at 14:48:16 Pacific

There is probably a way Perl or awk, but how about converting the string to an array of letters, and looping backwards through it:

#!/bin/ksh

string="$*"
integer i=${#string}
set -A arrayvar $(print $* | sed 's/./& /g')

while (( i >= 0 ))
do
print -n ${arrayvar[$i]}
(( i -= 1 ))
done

print


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April 4, 2003 at 06:18:07 Pacific

This works on HP-UX:

echo $1 | rev


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James Booth April 7, 2003 at 07:28:45 Pacific

That was a great answer, I knew there had to be a real easy way to do it. Thanks

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April 7, 2003 at 15:01:47 Pacific

That's weird. It would appear that I am answering myself (Oh, am I?). The previous post appears to have come from me, but it was not my reply. The name is slightly misspelled, but click on the link and you see my e-mail address.

OK, who did that?


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April 7, 2003 at 15:59:51 Pacific

Well it wasn't me.

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