Walter Ericson replied to the topic Julian to calendar date conversion in the forum Cloverleaf

Fri, 30 Dec 2005 00:36:40 -0500

Rob,

I use a function in Unix AIX 5.2 (korn shell) to get the last day of the month:

last_day_of_month()
{
/usr/bin/cal $1 $2 | /usr/bin/awk ‘{if ($NF) Last=$NF}
END{printf(“%sn”,Last);}’;
}

Sample useage (in korn shell script):
YESTERDAY=`last_day_of_month $LASTMONTH $YEAR`;
You may have to find cal and awk on your system!!

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Walter Ericson replied to the topic How can I strip a single element from a raw feed? in the forum Cloverleaf

Thu, 23 Jun 2005 22:20:08 -0400

Here is a tcl script that removes MSH.8.3.
Charlie Bursell wrote it to change ADT^XXX^XX to ADT^XXX.

It is simular to what you want to do.
Start with this script and you should be able to modified to what you need.

-Walter Ericson