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Re: How do I filter out one character?
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Re: How do I filter out one character?


  • Subject: Re: How do I filter out one character?
  • From: Takaaki Naganoya <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 08:41:05 +0900

Do you mean to delete 3rd character?


set aText to "CA02673AC638520"
set bText to (text 1 thru 2 of aText) & (text 4 thru -1 of aText)
—> “CA2673AC638520"


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Takaaki Naganoya
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> 2018/10/30 4:53、Jeffrey Madson <email@hidden>のメール:
>
> As a newbie I have managed to write a script after a lot of borrowing and
> testing that will insert the name of my Mac into System
> Preferences/Sharing/Computer Name. The script pulls information from three
> different data sources and in the end produces a name like this:
> CA02673AC638520
>
> The problem is that there is an extra character I need to filter out the
> third character in every case so it should look like this: CA2673AC638520. In
> the location code area of the script below I need to strip out the third
> character. After many attempts I have been unable to do this. Any suggestions?
>
>
> #Generate ComputerName
> if [ -z "$ComputerInfo" ]
> then
>       computername="SiteCode-AssetTag"
> else
>       #Set State, Location Code and Asset Tag variables
>       state=$(echo "$ComputerInfo" | cut -d',' -f1)
>       state=$(echo "${state//\"/}")
>
>       locationcode=$(echo "$ComputerInfo" | cut -d',' -f2)
>       locationcode=$(echo "${locationcode//\"/}")
>
>       assettag=$(echo "$ComputerInfo" | cut -d',' -f3)
>       assettag=$(echo "${assettag//\"/}")
>
>
>       #Generate the Computer Name
>       computername=$state$locationcode$assettag
> fi
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> MacGeek
>
>
>
>
>
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