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Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 11:20:20 -0800
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Subject: Re: [9fans] "Intervalic
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"Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com> wrote:

> If you're using awk and want the first 24 characters, I'd use substr.

Yup, substr is in there; but it needs to be fed the position dynamically with the regex.  Thanks again!

-Derek