Re: awk manipulating string

[Kumar Appaiah <a.kumar@alumni.iitm.ac.in>]

On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 06:47:41AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How do you remove the last character of a string in awk?

Here's one way:
awk 'BEGIN { x = "Hello!"; print substr(x, 0, length(x) - 1)}'

Can't think of anything better quickly...

HTH.

Kumar
-- 
Kumar Appaiah