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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers BASH validate user input Post 302338274 by 602chrislys on Monday 27th of July 2009 11:41:52 AM
Old 07-27-2009
BASH validate user input

Hey, im trying to validate a user input and need some help. The input needs to be just a single letter. Im using a case to so this eg:

Code:
read answer
case $answer in
     [A-Za-z]*) echo "OK"
        ;;
     [0-9]*) echo "This is a number"
                read answer
        ;;
        *)   echo "Please enter a letter ! !"
              read answer
        ;;
esac

I need to stop multiple letters and repeat letters being entered. Any ideas?? Thanks for any help.
 

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apertium-validate-postchunk(1)											    apertium-validate-postchunk(1)

NAME
apertium-validate-postchunk - This application is part of ( apertium ) This tool is part of the apertium open-source machine translation toolbox: http://www.apertium.org. SYNOPSIS
apertium-validate-postchunk <input_file> DESCRIPTION
This is an intermediate tool from Apertium level 2 engine. You should never have to use it independently. It is a script that validates a set of structural postchunk rules against the apertium structural postchunk rules DTD using the xmllint utility. OPTIONS
It has no options. FILES
input_file A postchunk.xml file postchunk.dtd The DTD used to validate the input file. SEE ALSO
apertium-gen-modes(1), apertium-gen-oldbil(1), apertium-interchunk(1), apertium-validate-modes(1), apertium-validate-interchunk(1). BUGS
Lots of them...lurking in the dark and waiting for you! AUTHOR
Copyright (c) 2005-2007 Universitat d'Alacant / Universidad de Alicante. This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. 2006-03-11 apertium-validate-postchunk(1)
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