On 06/28/2010 04:19 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Hi Eric,
>
> thanks for the suggestion. I had considered the idea for a second, but
> failed to see the nontrivial half.
>
> * Eric Blake wrote on Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 02:49:40PM CEST:
>> tmp=${1#?}
>> patt=
>> i=2
>> while test $i -lt ${#1}; do
>> patt="?$patt"
>
> If the parameter may be expected to be very long (which I don't think it
> will be) then
> func_append patt '?'
>
> would be useful here, and even if not, appending rather than prepending
> here helps with current bash.
>
>> i=$((i+1))
>> done
>> result=${tmp%$patt}
After thinking a bit more, this alternative should do the same job in
fewer lines of code and fewer temporary variables:
result=${1#?}
while test ${#result} -gt 1; do
result=${result%?}
done
Also, you have to be a bit careful:
$ tmp=a
$ echo ${tmp:2}
$ echo ${tmp#??}
a
that is, before trying to split off the first two bytes using XSI, you
must ensure that ${#1} has at least two bytes to be split in the first
place.
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