Solved How to find character position in string using unix.

nails February 8, 2013 at 12:33:21

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One way is to use the set command to parse the string where each segment is set to one of the command line variables and the total number of variables is $# Warning: I haven't tested it, but you might have a problem if you have 10 or greater variables. Let me know if you have any questions: #!/bin/ksh str="abc_def_ghg_hij" set $(IFS="_"; echo $str) ###echo $# # number of variables should be 4 nv=$# # create var1 to var4 i=1 while (($i <= $nv)) do eval var$i=\$$i ((i+=1)) done #echo $var1 # display variables var1 to var4 h=1 while (($h <= $nv)) do eval echo \"\$var$h\" ((h+=1)) done

Thanks for the reply. But i want to assign the values to different variables. I want the output as: name:abc category:def item:ghi Can anyone help me to get the above result?

nails February 9, 2013 at 14:01:41

Once the set command is executed: str="abc_def_ghg_hij" set $(IFS="_"; echo $str) why don you just do this: name=$1 category=$2 item=$3

Thanks a lot for the solution