hello,
I have got the following problem that I am hoping someone can help with please.

1. I have got the following text file (below) , the columns data are
'Test Day', 'Board', 'Betting Number'.


TEXT FILE
============================================
1 3 02-01-27-28-29-30
0 1 01-31-32-33-34-35
0 1 03-06-09-10-20-21
2 1 05-31-32-33-34-35
2 1 06-07-09-10-20-21
4 1 05-07-08-09-10-25
4 1 01-02-10-11-24-25
4 1 01-02-31-32-33-34
4 1 02-04-31-32-33-34
4 1 06-02-09-10-20-21

2. Consider a ticket system, that can have more that one boards (i.e
betting more than one numbers. So take for example the first line, the
board is 3, which means that one ticket will bet with Lin1, Line2 and
Line 3 Betting Numbers.
The problem I am having is that I cannot get the code to read Line2
and then Line 3 Betting Number because the board in Line 1 is greater
than 1.
The code works fine as it is, it reads each line in the text file and
send the data to another shell script ("$LOTO"/bin/loto_tsim
> /dev/null 2>&1 ) see code below

CODE ===========



#!/bin/ksh
#set -x

# This program extract data from a text file which holds wagering information for games and use these data as parameters
# for the TSIM (Transaction Simulator), which then generates various combinations of wagers (from the text file) using
# a vitual terminal (terminal 100)


main()
{
echo "\nPlease enter the Test Day or 0 for all days: "
read x

count=0
xcount=1
proveen=0

checker="false"

while read line ;

do


echo $line | read a b c d

if [ "$x" = "$a" ] ; then

( IFS=-
printf ' 1\n 1\n 0\n 0\n'
printf ' %s\n' $b
printf ' 1\n 7\n 0\n'
printf ' %s\n' $c

# HERE IS WHERE THE PROBLEM EXIST, IF I WANT TO EXTRACT $C FROM
# LINE 2 & 3 BECAUSE THE BOARD IN THE FIRST LINE IS 3
# THE CODE SHOULD EXTRACT THIS DATA BEFORE CONTINUING.
# IF THE BOARD IN THE FIRST LINE WAS 1, THEN THE CODE WOULD #EXECUTE AS NORMAL


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

let count=count+1
checker="true"
echo "Wager Number ${count} is:" $c
echo 'the value of board is :' $b
echo 'the line number is :' $line


elif [ "$x" = 0 ] ; then

( IFS=-
printf ' 1\n 1\n 0\n 0\n 1\n 1\n 7\n 0\n'
printf ' %s\n' $c
let lncounter=lncounter+1
printf ' 1\n 1\n 0\n 0\n 0\n N\n 1\n 100\n' ) |
"$LOTO"/bin/loto_tsim > /dev/null 2>&1

let count=count+1
checker="true"
echo "Wager Number ${count} is:" $c
else
let proveen=proveen+1



fi

done < LottWagers2.txt # Text file data is sent to the while loop
if [ "$checker" = "true" ] ; then
anotherchance
else
backup
fi
}

backup() {

echo "\nTest day not found, would you like to try again? [Y/N] : "

typeset -u pp
read ans
pp=$ans


if [ "$pp" = "Y" ] ; then

main
elif [ "$pp" = "N" ] ; then
echo "\n ******** GOODBYE ************ \n"
else
echo "\nUnrecognised entry \n"
fi
}

anotherchance()
{
echo "\nWould you like to wager again? [Y/N] : "

typeset -u pp
read wa
pp=$wa

if [ "$pp" = "Y" ] ; then
main
elif [ "$pp" = "N" ] ; then
echo "\n ******** GOODBYE ************ \n"
else
echo "\nUNRECOGNISED ENTRY"
anotherchance


fi

}

main

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