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Old 03-12-2009
sandholm sandholm is offline
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Cool What about case?
Let me add to the previous example:

case $USER in
[a-mA-M]* ) A;;
[n-zN-Z]* ) B;;
esac

This way you'll match independent of case.
You know how "users" are!