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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Ksh How to test if variable is numeric?? Post 302183658 by era on Wednesday 9th of April 2008 03:41:57 PM
Old 04-09-2008
There are ways of course, but it would be better IMHO to understand what's wrong here. Does it pass strict numerical test? Does it pass five-character test?

Code:
case $zipcode in *[!0-9]*) echo did not pass all-number test >&2;; esac
case $zipcode in ?????) echo did not pass five-character test >&2;; esac

 

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NAME
gendesc - Generate a test case description file SYNOPSIS
gendesc [-h|--help] [-v|--version] [-o|--output-filename filename] inputfile DESCRIPTION
Convert plain text test case descriptions into a format as understood by genhtml. inputfile needs to observe the following format: For each test case: - one line containing the test case name beginning at the start of the line - one or more lines containing the test case description indented with at least one whitespace character (tab or space) Example input file: test01 An example test case description. Description continued test42 Supposedly the answer to most of your questions Note: valid test names can consist of letters, decimal digits and the underscore character ('_'). OPTIONS
-h --help Print a short help text, then exit. -v --version Print version number, then exit. -o filename --output-filename filename Write description data to filename. By default, output is written to STDOUT. AUTHOR
Peter Oberparleiter <Peter.Oberparleiter@de.ibm.com> SEE ALSO
lcov(1), genhtml(1), geninfo(1), genpng(1), gcov(1) 2010-08-06 LCOV 1.9 gendesc(1)
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