01-29-2009
might be clearer and more efficient to use a case sequence instead of a for loop.
that way, you could have the third entry for "*" to prompt for the correct country.
case $COUNTRY_SPEC in
US) .....;;
India) ....;;
*) echo "please enter correct country";;
esac
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SYNOPSIS
Warning
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DESCRIPTION
Returns the name of the table that the specified field is in.
o $
result -The result resource that is being evaluated. This result comes from a call to mysql_query(3).
o $
field_offset -The numerical field offset. The $field_offset starts at 0. If $field_offset does not exist, an error of level
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The name of the table on success.
Example #1
A mysql_field_table(3) example
<?php
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Note
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mysql_list_tables(3).
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