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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting how to set a variable to accept alpha-numeric characters? Post 22474 by bcaunt on Tuesday 4th of June 2002 02:29:49 PM
Old 06-04-2002
I'm using the Korn shell on my UNIX box. For some reason, I thought I had to treat an alphanumeric differently than a numeric; now that I have looked over my script, I noted what the problem was (a 'less than/greater than' limitation)...it works fine now. Thanks for shaking some sense into me! :-)
 

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