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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting using variables in case statement Post 302366011 by cfajohnson on Wednesday 28th of October 2009 02:03:56 PM
Old 10-28-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by vgersh99
but doesn't that defeat the purpose of using a variable as valid 'choice'?

There is no purpose in using syntax that is not supported.
Quote:
Is there a way to do it the way the OPed wanted originally?
I remember seeing something very similar done somewhere...

Code:
eval "case \$ans in $lsmonth) .... esac"

 

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NAME
xmlindent - XML stream reformatter SYNTAX
xmlindent [-o output file] [-i indent level] [-l max columns] [-n newline position] [-t] [-c] [-f] [-w] [-h] [-v] DESCRIPTION
XML Indent is a XML stream reformatter written in ANSI C. It is analogous to GNU indent. OPTIONS
-o output file Write indented XML to output file -i indent level Indent each level indent level spaces deeper -l max columns Wrap lines longer than max columns -t Use tabs instead of spaces -nas Suppress newline after start-tag -nae Suppress newline after end-tag -nbs Suppress newline before start-tag -nbe Suppress newline before end-tag -f Force newline on elements without children -w Overwrite original file -v Show version -h Show command line help AUTHORS
Pekka Enberg <penberg@iki.fi> Thomas Fischer <th.fischer@gmx.net> (man page) SEE ALSO
indent(1) Thomas Fischer 0.2.17 xmlindent(1)
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