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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers BASH validate user input Post 302338287 by Tytalus on Monday 27th of July 2009 12:24:08 PM
Old 07-27-2009
this appears to be much the same as the question asked in

https://www.unix.com/unix-dummies-que...-alphabet.html

you guys doing the same course ;-)

And to answer your question...you could do it in a variety oif ways...maybe you could look at the length of the input...or use dd to "read" in one char at a time...etc
 

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apertium-validate-acx(1)												  apertium-validate-acx(1)

NAME
apertium-validate-acx - 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-acx <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 acx rules against the apertium structural acx rules RNG using the xmllint utility. OPTIONS
It has no options. FILES
input_file A acx.xml file acx.rng 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), aper- tium-validate-postchunk(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-acx(1)
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