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02-12-2010

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Quote:

Originally Posted by mac4rfree

@cfajohnson,
Thanks for pointing out the errors, i have changed the sh to ksh93.

But even now i am not able to run the for command.

Code:

tci001wasd02 $ cat array_for.sh
#/bin/ksh93

set -A array "are" "you" "there";

I would use the more portable (though arrays are not standard) form of assigning an array:
Code:
array=( are you there )   ## doesn't work in ksh88, AFAIK

Quote:

Code:

for (( i = 0 ; i < ${#array[@]} ; i++ ))
do
echo ${array[$i]}
done
tci001wasd02 $ sh -vx array_for.sh
#/bin/ksh93

set -A array "are" "you" "there";
+ set -A array are you there

for ((array_for.sh[5]: 0403-057 Syntax error at line 5 : `(' is not expected.

Then use the standard syntax.

(That works for me in ksh93; perhaps you are using a different version of ksh93. All the more reason to use the standard syntax; it will work in all versions and other shells.)

Quote:

the command u mentioned above

Code:

for i in "${!array[@]}"

will give me all the elements in the array. But i want only certain elements from the array, which i wanted to do it using a for loop...

Both forms give you all the elements in the array. You have to select the ones you want inside the loop.

Always use the standard syntax when possible without losing efficiency. Non-standard features may (and often do) change from one verion of a shell to the next.

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continue

continue(1T)						       Tcl Built-In Commands						      continue(1T)

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

NAME

       continue - Skip to the next iteration of a loop

SYNOPSIS

       continue
_________________________________________________________________

DESCRIPTION

       This  command  is  typically invoked inside the body of a looping command such as for or foreach or while.  It returns a TCL_CONTINUE code,
       which causes a continue exception to occur.  The exception causes the current script to be aborted out to  the  innermost  containing  loop
       command,  which	then  continues with the next iteration of the loop.  Catch exceptions are also handled in a few other situations, such as
       the catch command and the outermost scripts of procedure bodies.

EXAMPLE

       Print a line for each of the integers from 0 to 10 except 5:
	      for {set x 0} {$x<10} {incr x} {
		 if {$x == 5} {
		    continue
		 }
		 puts "x is $x"
	      }

SEE ALSO

       break(1T), for(1T), foreach(1T), return(1T), while(1T)

KEYWORDS

       continue, iteration, loop

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +--------------------+-----------------+
       |  ATTRIBUTE TYPE    | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
       +--------------------+-----------------+
       |Availability	    | SUNWTcl	      |
       +--------------------+-----------------+
       |Interface Stability | Uncommitted     |
       +--------------------+-----------------+
NOTES

       Source for Tcl is available on http://opensolaris.org.

Tcl																      continue(1T)

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