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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers until statement not working Post 302328361 by Franklin52 on Wednesday 24th of June 2009 06:41:53 AM
Old 06-24-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by strasner
im trying to write an until statement which dont go onto the next stage until the user inputs a certain phrase. It is then stored in an array. Ive come up with this code so far but its not working and i dont know why.
Code:
read in1
    until [ $in1 = 'lt' || $in1 = 't' || $in1 = 'rt' ]
        do 
        echo "Incorrect, try again"
        read in1
        done
    arr[$i]=$in1

please help me
This line:

Code:
until [ $in1 = 'lt' || $in1 = 't' || $in1 = 'rt' ]

should be:

Code:
until [ $in1 = 'lt' -o $in1 = 't' -o $in1 = 'rt' ]

Or with the ksh syntax:
Code:
until [[ $in1 = 'lt' || $in1 = 't'  || $in1 = 'rt' ]]

 

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EXECUTE(7)                                                         SQL Commands                                                         EXECUTE(7)

NAME
EXECUTE - execute a prepared statement SYNOPSIS
EXECUTE name [ ( parameter [, ...] ) ] DESCRIPTION
EXECUTE is used to execute a previously prepared statement. Since prepared statements only exist for the duration of a session, the pre- pared statement must have been created by a PREPARE statement executed earlier in the current session. If the PREPARE statement that created the statement specified some parameters, a compatible set of parameters must be passed to the EXECUTE statement, or else an error is raised. Note that (unlike functions) prepared statements are not overloaded based on the type or number of their parameters; the name of a prepared statement must be unique within a database session. For more information on the creation and usage of prepared statements, see PREPARE [prepare(7)]. PARAMETERS
name The name of the prepared statement to execute. parameter The actual value of a parameter to the prepared statement. This must be an expression yielding a value that is compatible with the data type of this parameter, as was determined when the prepared statement was created. OUTPUTS
The command tag returned by EXECUTE is that of the prepared statement, and not EXECUTE. EXAMPLES
Examples are given in the Examples [prepare(7)] section of the PREPARE [prepare(7)] documentation. COMPATIBILITY
The SQL standard includes an EXECUTE statement, but it is only for use in embedded SQL. This version of the EXECUTE statement also uses a somewhat different syntax. SEE ALSO
DEALLOCATE [deallocate(7)], PREPARE [prepare(7)] SQL - Language Statements 2010-05-14 EXECUTE(7)
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