Re: string to date KSH

vishu wrote:
Could you please explain the following code in brief words.
Ed Morton wrote:

Rafael The Engel wrote:

Hello everyone,
I need your help

I have a string the contains a date "20061024"

I wand to convert it to 24/10/2006

$ date="20061024"

A string assignment.

$ tmp="${date%??}"

Strip the last two characters "24" from string 'date', store the
remainder "200610" in 'tmp'.

$ echo "${date#??????}/${tmp#????}/${tmp%??}"

Three parts separated by '/' are printed;
- strip first (#) six characters from 'date' leaving "24"
- strip first (#) four characters from 'tmp' leaving "10"
- strip the last (%) two characters from 'tmp' leaving "2006"

Janis

24/10/2006

Regards,

Ed.


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