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

[Bill Jonas]

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On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 12:23:34AM -0700, Entelin wrote:
> lol thanks everyone, sorry for not specifying the language (bash), but
> suffice to say I have serveral methods now I can try :)

bash?  Try one of these:

$ a =3D"string.txt"
$ echo ${a%%.txt}
string
$ echo ${a//.txt/}
string
$ b=3D"${a%%.txt}"
$ echo $b
string

See the "Parameter Expansion" section in bash(1) for more details.

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