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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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