quantik
Reputation: 816
Extract a substring from a text file using a positional argument
I extract the specific line with awk 'FNR == 6 {print $1}' infile.txt. Suppose this line is QWKEJQKSKMAOJISDKJFSDWESA. What should I pipe with awk in order to extract the characters in between the 10th and 15th positions of this string?
Upvotes: 1
Views: 75
Answers (1)
Ed Morton
Reputation: 204259
print substr($1,10,6)
check the math depending what "between" means to you.
Upvotes: 2
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