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Old 08-04-2008
Select command array
Hello everyone,
I have a quick question about the select command in ksh. I am using it to define a menu for user selection, I have found that the REPLY var contains the input from the user, I was interested to find out if there is a system variable that contains the whole menu as an array, the reason being that I would like the user to be allowed multiple selections from the menu, at that point all of those would be in $REPLY as a sequence of numbers, still I would like to resolve those numbers to what selection they all were in the menu.
I hope you can help.
Thanks.
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Old 08-04-2008
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Originally Posted by gio001
Hello everyone,
I have a quick question about the select command in ksh. I am using it to define a menu for user selection, I have found that the REPLY var contains the input from the user, I was interested to find out if there is a system variable that contains the whole menu as an array, the reason being that I would like the user to be allowed multiple selections from the menu, at that point all of those would be in $REPLY as a sequence of numbers, still I would like to resolve those numbers to what selection they all were in the menu.
Thanks.
Why don't you define the menu in an array before invoking select and using the array as the argument to select?

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Old 08-05-2008
Great idea
Thanks for the great idea. I knew I could count on you guys to come to the rescue . . . .
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