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Posted: **Wed Nov 18, 2009 8:32 am**

What is the DataStage String function equivalent to cut -c command we have in unix. my requirement is extracting chaacter from position 11 to 20 from a string of 25 characters. I have to do it thru DS only

Posted: **Wed Nov 18, 2009 9:20 am**

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In.Mystring[11,10]

Posted: **Wed Nov 18, 2009 10:09 am**

Right, those square brackets are the substring operators and they take start position and length as parameters.

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Retrieve nth char from a string

Retrieve nth char from a string