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

Kevin Brown plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Mon, 03 Mar 2003 21:40:37 -0700


> I want to take a variable say  a="string.txt"  and chop off the last 4
> characters so I can make variable b equal to just "string"

What programming language?

You can use cut in a shell script, or treat it as an array and shorten the array 
length by 4 spots, etc...