12-22-2009
Korn expr substr fails for non-numeric value
I am running AIX 5.3 using the Korn Shell. I am reading file names from a file, as an example:
E0801260
E0824349
E0925345
EMPMSTR
statement "num=$(expr substr "$DDNAME" 4 2)
extracts the numeric values fine. But when I het the last entry, it returns num=MS, but I get an error messages "The specific number is not valid for this command".
My goal is to read thru this file and skip items like the last one that is NOT numeric. Am I going down the wrong path? Is there a better way of handlling this task?
Thanks!
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load_dat_font(3alleg4) Allegro manual load_dat_font(3alleg4)
NAME
load_dat_font - Loads a FONT from an Allegro datafile.
SYNOPSIS
#include <allegro.h>
FONT *load_dat_font(const char *filename, RGB *pal, void *param)
DESCRIPTION
Loads a FONT from an Allegro datafile. You can set param parameter to point to an array that holds two strings that identify the font and
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font found in the datafile. The second string can be used to specify the name of the palette associated with the font. This is only
returned if the pal parameter is not NULL. If you pass NULL for the name of the palette, the last palette found before the font was found
is returned. You can also pass NULL for param, which is treated as if you had passed NULL for both strings separately. In this case, the
function will simply load the first font it finds from the datafile and the palette that precedes it.
For example, suppose you have a datafile named `fonts.dat' with the following contents:
FONT FONT_1_DATA
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FONT FONT_3_DATA
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