Finding a letter in a string

balamv · #1 (**permalink**) 09-30-2009

How to check whether a particular string contains dot [.] or not?
Here I can not use grep as the string is not in a file. I will get this string from user input

Thanks,

varontron · #2 (**permalink**) 09-30-2009

Code:

read INPUT
echo $INPUT | grep "\."

balamv · #3 (**permalink**) 09-30-2009

Thanks, it works as you said.

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