It supports the substring with positive and negative vals so:<div><br></div><div>${foo:3:4} would start at char 3 in the string and eval to the next 4 chars </div><div>${foo:-3:2} would start at the end and go back 3 chars then print the next 2 chars </div>
<div><br></div><div>If the var name is followed by a ( or a space, it will pass the values to the FSAPI and expand the result inline.</div><div><br></div><div>${sofia_contact 1004}<br></div><div><br></div><div>equiv of...</div>
<div><br></div><div>${sofia_contact(1004)}<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 8:53 AM,  <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:covici@ccs.covici.com" target="_blank">covici@ccs.covici.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi.  I was experimenting with ${variable} and was wondering what could<br>
be in there before the }?  I can do a substring if I say variable:2, but<br>
I wonder what else you can do?  The bash manual has all kinds of things<br>
you can have, but how much of this will fs do?<br>
<br>
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.<br>
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