how do I chop of characters at the end of a line...

[Bryce C]

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In PHP, $a=3Dsubstr($a, 0, -4);.  Hope that can help. At least substr().

On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 21:40, Kevin Brown wrote:
> > I want to take a variable say  a=3D"string.txt"  and chop off the last =
4
> > characters so I can make variable b equal to just "string"
>=20
> What programming language?
>=20
> You can use cut in a shell script, or treat it as an array and shorten th=
e array=20
> length by 4 spots, etc...
>=20
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