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authorAndrey Samsonov <andrey.samsonov@gmail.com>2015-05-02 15:34:56 +0400
committerAndrey Samsonov <andrey.samsonov@gmail.com>2015-05-02 15:34:56 +0400
commit8758bb845b063b76b55d2c178d0dc393b2a39c5c (patch)
treed52060f5892992e39cab4f2472acca9b09a6d798 /bash.html.markdown
parent7f1c4293e448f9ff1e14587c189dd672ad8c19e5 (diff)
Clear that length and position can be set by variable in substring extraction
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/bash.html.markdown b/bash.html.markdown
index e0c12f97..81f85d28 100644
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+++ b/bash.html.markdown
@@ -59,7 +59,8 @@ echo ${VARIABLE/Some/A}
# This will substitute the first occurance of "Some" with "A"
# Substring from a variable
-echo ${VARIABLE:0:7}
+LENGTH=7
+echo ${VARIABLE:0:LENGTH}
# This will return only the first 7 characters of the value
# Default value for variable