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From: barsam@eros.ame.arizona.edu (Barsam Marasli)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Picking a character from a word
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Date: 22 Apr 88 21:02:36 GMT
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I have a csh question.
I would like to have a script that will echo, say the 4th character
of an arguement. I came up with the following:

set word=`echo $1 | od -c` ; echo $word[5]

which seems to do the job but somehow I feel like there are
more elegant ways of doing this. Please reply by e-mail or
post. Also what's an alternative in sh? Thanx.

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