Cindy, Unstring 2nd field with delimiter of # ? -Steve -------------------- Hi All, Sorry to fill up your e-mail but I tried sending this to just the TLE list unsuccessfully. Thanks, Cindy ---------------------- Forwarded by Cindy Bean/AMSAW on 04/17/2001 03:03 PM --------------------------- 04/17/2001 02:58 PM Cindy Bean Cindy Bean Cindy Bean 04/17/2001 02:58 PM 04/17/2001 02:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: User exit help-unix scripting Hi, I am struggling with writing a simple user exit script which will take a string and return only the numbers contained within it. I am hoping that someone will help me out, our Unix specialist is out for a couple of days and I've tried everything. Here is my example: I am storing "CR/APPR#19450000" into a field called APPROVE I am then calling a user exit, approval, which uses that field I am hoping to get back "19450000" but keep getting the whole field back. I only need the 8 digit approval code. It is not always started in the same position, thus I found it impossible to do it within the map itself so thought I would take advantage of the user exit option. If someone could please give me a hint as to what the command should look like in Unix, I would be MOST APPRECIATIVE!!!! Thanks, Cindy p.s. I'm on TLE4.2, Solaris 2.6 ======================================================================= To contact the list owner: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/edi-l%40listserv.ucop.edu/ ======================================================================= To contact the list owner: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/edi-l%40listserv.ucop.edu/