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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting A little help please Post 302145565 by porter on Wednesday 14th of November 2007 04:12:11 PM

11-14-2007

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Quote:

Originally Posted by immyakram

$ str1=abcd
$ test $str1 = abcd
$ echo $?
0

Good.

Quote:

Originally Posted by immyakram

$ str1="abcd "
$ test "$str1" = abcd
$ echo $?
1

Yes, this test fails because str1 has a trailing space, ie, the string is five characters long, not four, so does not match.

Last edited by porter; 11-14-2007 at 05:26 PM..

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