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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How can I use if statement to check a string start with "abc" Post 302357343 by BubbaJoe on Tuesday 29th of September 2009 11:36:23 AM
Old 09-29-2009
I believe you can try this if you are using bash
Code:
if [[ ${name:0:3} = "abc" ]] 
then
echo success
fi

 

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SYNOPSIS
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mssql_free_statement(3) only needs to be called if you are worried about using too much memory while your script is running. All statement memory will automatically be freed when the script ends. You may call mssql_free_statement(3) with the statement identifier as an argument and the associated statement memory will be freed. PARAMETERS
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