extracting all but three characters1996-08-24 14:06:35Is there a way extract all but the last three characters of a string (with the MATCH facility, that is; I know how to do it by forking cut or sed or expr or ksh) into $MATCH if any character can occur at any position? For example, if we know that the last character to extract is a digit and the remaining three are not digits, this works: :0 # extract though last digit * BIGSTRING ?? ^^\/.*[0-9] { SAVEDPIECE="$MATCH" } But what if we don't have any such particulars to rely on? DWT
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