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Old 10-09-2008
Why not use plain old case?

Code:
case $string in
  *[!0-9A-Za-z]*) echo "Not pure alpha + numbers" ;;
  *[!0-9]*) echo "Pure alpha";;
  '') echo "Empty string (duh)" ;;
  *) echo "Pure numbers" ;;
esac

 

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gendesc(1)							   User Manuals 							gendesc(1)

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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