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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Passing space separated value to a function - error Post 302357616 by balamv on Wednesday 30th of September 2009 09:00:03 AM
Old 09-30-2009
Question Passing space separated value to a function - error
Taking inputs in the script which is space separated and passing this to a function and i have assigned like below
And then when I use for loop for the inputs i got from the user, it is taking only the first argument.
Code:
Enter Names : Bala Sundar Sridhar
read names
namesCheck $names

function namesCheck() {
myname=$1

for i in myname
do
printf "\n$i"
done
}

this is printing always the first name .. here as Bala

Pl help me how to get all values in the function.
Last edited by vgersh99; 09-30-2009 at 10:14 AM.. Reason: code tags, PLEASE!
 

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NAME

       pbc_merge - Merge multiple Parrot bytecode (PBC) files into
			 a single PBC file.

SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

       This program takes two or more PBC files and produces a single merged output PBC file with a single fix-up table and constants table.

   Command-Line Options
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	   The name of the PBC file to produce, containing the merged segments from the input PBC files.

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	   This function merges the constants tables from the input PBC files.

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	   This function merges the debug segments from the input PBC files.

       "static void pbc_fixup_bytecode(PARROT_INTERP, pbc_merge_input **inputs, int num_inputs, PackFile_ByteCode *bc)"
	   Fixup bytecode. This includes correcting pointers into the constant table and updating the ops mapping.

       "static void pbc_fixup_constants(PARROT_INTERP, pbc_merge_input **inputs, int num_inputs)"
	   Fixup constants. This includes correcting pointers into bytecode.

       "static PackFile* pbc_merge_begin(PARROT_INTERP, pbc_merge_input **inputs, int num_inputs)"
	   This is the function that drives PBC merging process.

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	   This functions writes out the merged packfile.

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