RosettaCodeData/Task/Substring/UNIX-Shell/substring-2.sh

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str="abc qrdef qrghi"
n=6
m=3
expr "x$str" : "x.\{$n\}\(.\{1,$m\}\)"
expr "x$str" : "x.\{$n\}\(.*\)"
expr "x$str" : "x\(.*\)."
index() {
i=0 s=$1
until test "x$s" = x || expr "x$s" : "x$2" >/dev/null; do
i=`expr $i + 1` s=`expr "x$s" : "x.\(.*\)"`
done
echo $i
}
expr "x$str" : "x.\{`index "$str" r`\}\(.\{1,$m\}\)"
expr "x$str" : "x.\{`index "$str" qr`\}\(.\{1,$m\}\)"