Thread: Using variable in case statement
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Old 05-10-2008
guruparan18 guruparan18 is offline
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Try this

Quote:
bash-2.03$ b=[1,2,3,4]
bash-2.03$ case $ans in
> $b) echo $ans ;;
> x) break ;;
> *) echo "Error"
> esac
It should work.
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