With Perl:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
$filename = shift;
$filename =~ s/\.\S*//;
print "$filename\n";

Bart

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From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
[mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Entelin
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 9:39 PM
To: Phoenix Linux Users Group
Subject: how do I chop of characters at the end of a line...


I want to take a variable say  a="string.txt"  and chop off the last 4
characters so I can make variable b equal to just "string"

Thanks for your help

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