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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting several arguments together Post 23754 by Perderabo on Friday 28th of June 2002 10:20:43 AM
Old 06-28-2002
If you invoke a script like this:
loc "one two three"

The script called loc will see only one argument and it will be "one two three". This seems to be what you want, so I don't see a problem here.
 

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ISALNUM_L(3)						   BSD Library Functions Manual 					      ISALNUM_L(3)

NAME
isalnum_l, isalpha_l, isblank_l, iscntrl_l, isdigit_l, isgraph_l, ishexnumber_l, isideogram_l, islower_l, isnumber_l, isphonogram_l, isprint_l, ispunct_l, isrune_l, isspace_l, isspecial_l, isupper_l, isxdigit_l -- character classification utilities LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc) SYNOPSIS
#include <wctype.h> #include <xlocale.h> int isalnum_l(int c, locale_t loc); int isalpha_l(int c, locale_t loc); int isblank_l(int c, locale_t loc); int iscntrl_l(int c, locale_t loc); int isdigit_l(int c, locale_t loc); int isgraph_l(int c, locale_t loc); int ishexnumber_l(int c, locale_t loc); int isideogram_l(int c, locale_t loc); int islower_l(int c, locale_t loc); int isnumber_l(int c, locale_t loc); int isphonogram_l(int c, locale_t loc); int isprint_l(int c, locale_t loc); int ispunct_l(int c, locale_t loc); int isrune_l(int c, locale_t loc); int isspace_l(int c, locale_t loc); int isspecial_l(int c, locale_t loc); int isupper_l(int c, locale_t loc); int isxdigit_l(int c, locale_t loc); DESCRIPTION
These functions are extended locale versions of the corresponding functions, with the _l removed. Also, see xlocale(3) for more information about extended locales. SEE ALSO
isalnum(3), isalpha(3), isblank(3), iscntrl(3), isdigit(3), isgraph(3), ishexnumber(3), isideogram(3), islower(3), isnumber(3), isphonogram(3), isprint(3), ispunct(3), isrune(3), isspace(3), isspecial(3), isupper(3), isxdigit(3), xlocale(3) BSD
March 11, 2005 BSD
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