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Old 01-28-2008
naren_0101bits naren_0101bits is offline
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You people are right. But what i am trying is not numeric to numeric or string to string comparison. But it is like
$ VAR=25
And i want to check if $VAR is "25A" or not. Likewise
$ if [ $VAR == "25A" ] { .........} else { ..........}

And this is giving error.