Cannot get the latest item from a range in bash

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I’m trying to ‘git diff’ last commit PR in GH but the commit does not seem to be the correct one. So used the following:

echo "commit range: ${TRAVIS_COMMIT_RANGE}"

and I got:

commit range: 76acf3b3b213cd3f4f1e3a023e250ca23072fedd...474b7552e8a605b860df7b353dc8658d5025b0bf

So now I need to parse the above range to get only string like:

474b7552e8a605b860df7b353dc8658d5025b0bf

But when I do this in bash:

echo "commit range: ${TRAVIS_COMMIT_RANGE[-1]}"

I get:

: bad array subscript
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$TRAVIS_COMMIT_RANGE

This isn’t an array, it’s a single string. Try a parameter expansion instead:

${TRAVIS_COMMIT_RANGE##*.}  # Remove all code until final character (the period)
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This did it! thank you.

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Hey @SolarUltima,

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