Hello,
A script has been written to extract a specific column data from a text file ONLY if the user's initial input matches the the data of the first column in the text, then only the data from that row will be prinited.

The problem I am having is that the code is only reading the records highlighted in red from the text file. It should only read the lines where the first column matches the user’s input.

CAN ANYONE HELP?


===================Shell Script=======================

#!/bin/sh

print 'Please enter the Test Day or 0 for all days: '

read x

while read line
do
read a b c d

if a==x
then
( IFS=-
printf ' 1\n 20\n 0\n 0\n 1\n 1\n 7\n 0\n'
printf ' %s\n' $c
printf ' 1\n 1\n 0\n 0\n 0\n N\n 1\n 100\n' ) |
"$LOTO"/bin/loto_tsim > /dev/null 2>&1

print 'X is now equals to : ' $x
print 'First Col equals to : ' $a
print 'Your wager is: ' $c
fi

done < LottWagers2.txt



============= LottWagers2.txt =============

1 1 01-02-27-28-29-30 (99) Both 1
1 1 01-31-32-33-34-35 (99) Both 3
2 1 01-06-09-10-20-21 (99) Both 3
4 1 05-07-08-09-10-25 (99) Both 4
4 1 01-02-10-11-24-25 (99) Both 7
4 1 01-02-31-32-33-34 (99) Both 5