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Old 08-15-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by jim mcnamara
The shell also supports different kinds of string operators. The most nearly universal one is expr - in this case expr index

Try man expr.
Code:
let is_there=0
check ()
{
  if [ $is_there -gt 0 ] ; then
     echo "$str has a WA in it"
  else
     echo "$str has no WA in it"
  fi         
}

str="/someplace/WA/01/"
is_there=`expr index $str "WA"`
check;

Test whether expr return zero or a non-zero result.
For the record, this doesn't work, since expr index finds the first occurrence of ANY CHARACTER from the second arg.

Code:
$ expr index quickbrownfox zzzzzzkzzzzzzzzzz
5

case ... esac solved my problem.
 

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