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Substr on one liners command

Stefanik
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Dec 5, 2012, 2:03 AM

Post #1 of 10 (1659 views)

Substr on one liners command	Can't Post

Hi all,
I should execute a substring operation in a shell script.
I was thinking to execute the operation using perl one liners.

My code is following:

Code

$String = "Hi there"; 
$Substring = substr($String,0,2); 
print "$Substring\n"

Can I execute it one liners?

Thanks

rovf
Veteran

Dec 5, 2012, 3:21 AM

Post #2 of 10 (1655 views)

Re: [Stefanik] Substr on one liners command [In reply to]	Can't Post

Code

perl -le '$String = "Hi there"; $Substring = substr($String,0,2);print $Substring'

Or did I miss something in your question?????

Stefanik
User

Dec 5, 2012, 5:17 AM

Post #3 of 10 (1651 views)

Re: [rovf] Substr on one liners command [In reply to]	Can't Post

Hi Rovf.
Thanks a lot! Smile

Stefanik
User

Dec 5, 2012, 6:39 AM

Post #4 of 10 (1648 views)

Re: [rovf] Substr on one liners command [In reply to]	Can't Post

I've a problem to use the code with a shell variable.
Here is my code:

Code

String="some_date_interval" 
 
dateinterval_v=`perl -le 'print $String;$Substring = substr($String,0,4);print $Substring'`

In this way the $String print is empty.
$String is declared in unix shell.

I think there is a problem for perl module to read shell variable.

rovf
Veteran

Dec 5, 2012, 8:01 AM

Post #5 of 10 (1643 views)

Re: [Stefanik] Substr on one liners command [In reply to]	Can't Post

$ENV{YOUR_SHELL_VARIABLE_GOES_HERE}

Laurent_R
Enthusiast / Moderator

Dec 5, 2012, 10:33 AM

Post #6 of 10 (1637 views)

Re: [rovf] Substr on one liners command [In reply to]	Can't Post

In other words:

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String="some_date_interval"  
  
dateinterval_v=`perl -le '$string = ENV{String}; print $String; $Substring = substr($String,0,4); print $Substring;'`

You could also pass the value as a parameter to your Perl script:

Code

dateinterval_v=`perl -le '$string = shift; print $String; $Substring = substr($String,0,4); print $Substring;' "some_date_interval" `

rovf
Veteran

Dec 5, 2012, 12:12 PM

Post #7 of 10 (1633 views)

Re: [Laurent_R] Substr on one liners command [In reply to]	Can't Post

Quote

$string = ENV{String};

Sigil is missing. Should be

Code

$string = $ENV{String};

Laurent_R
Enthusiast / Moderator

Dec 5, 2012, 1:49 PM

Post #8 of 10 (1613 views)

Re: [rovf] Substr on one liners command [In reply to]	Can't Post

Yes of course, you are right, it should be $ENV{envrnmt_var}.

Stefanik
User

Dec 6, 2012, 12:41 AM

Post #9 of 10 (1607 views)

Re: [Laurent_R] Substr on one liners command [In reply to]	Can't Post

Thanks both of you.
I try your code, but it doesn't work:

Code

String="some_date_interval"   
   
dateinterval_v=`perl -le '$StringPerl = $ENV{String}; print $String; print $StringPerl;$Substring = substr($StringPerl,0,4); print $Substring;'`

but the result is empty.
Instead I printout the shell variable and it has the right value.

By the way I use a "work-around" writing the variable in a temporary file, then reading that file from perl module. But this is a worst solution.

rovf
Veteran

Dec 6, 2012, 1:42 AM

Post #10 of 10 (1605 views)

Re: [Stefanik] Substr on one liners command [In reply to]	Can't Post

You forgot to export your shell variable to the environment.

(This post was edited by rovf on Dec 6, 2012, 1:43 AM)

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