From: gene@bear.com
To: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: Re: is this really correct
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 14:07:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9606101807.AA03486@bear.com> (raw)
[on Jun 10 Hrvoje Niksic said]
> > % a="-s"; if [ "$a" = "-s" ] ; then echo "yeh" ; fi
>
> exists and has a size greater than zero :-). This works for me:
> $ echo hi > =
> $ a="-s"; if [ "$a" = "-s" ] ; then echo "yeh" ; fi
> yeh
>
>End included message on "Re: Is this really correct ?"
I like this, the problem is, for this to be really useful we need:
if [ "$a" = "-s" ] ; then echo "hi" > = ; fi
if [ "$a" = "-s" ] ; then echo "yeh" ; fi
But the first if fails .... :-)
Joking aside, this may be correct, but it kind of fails the "gee whiz"
behaviour test. I suppose one would use a 'case' statement.
What is the "preferred" way of testing strings that may be arbitrarily
input then given the above ? I mean one does not know what 'a' is until
you do a test on it right ?
Gene
gene@bear.com
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next reply other threads:[~1996-06-10 18:28 UTC|newest]
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1996-06-10 18:07 gene [this message]
1996-06-10 18:33 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
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