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Wed, 23 November 2005 15:57

mchittib
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Registered: September 2005

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Can someone tell me How to trim spaces leading and trailing for a variable.

Thanks In advance

Thu, 24 November 2005 18:00

rleishman
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Registered: October 2005
Location: Melbourne, Australia

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Heres one way

a=`echo $a | sed -e 's/^ *//' -e 's/ *$//'`

There is a more elegant way using typeset -L if the variable is a fixed length.
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Ross Leishman

Mon, 28 November 2005 14:30

mchittib
Messages: 87
Registered: September 2005

Member

Thanks a lot.
That works.

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