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Old 12-14-2007
lumix lumix is offline
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Bourne: search for a non-numeric character in $VAR

if $1 = "123x456", how can I test for the non-numeric character 'x' in that string. I've tried expr with "[^0-9]" but it did not find the x. Any ideas? Can this perhaps be done with sed?

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