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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to preserve space while concatenating strings? (KSH) Post 302441253 by dahlia84 on Friday 30th of July 2010 03:06:51 AM
Old 07-30-2010
How to preserve space while concatenating strings? (KSH)

I have these

Code:
str1=$(echo "This is string one with spaces \n This is also my sentence 1")

When I echo $str1, it displays the new line character properly.

Now I have another new variable say str2.

I want to concatenate in this way.. str1 + newline character + and then str2.

That's I want the output to be:

Code:
This is string one with spaces
This is also my sentence 1
Content of str2

How do I do it?

I tried

Code:
$str1 = "$str1 $(echo "\n") $str2"

and

Code:
$str1 = "$str1 \n $str2"

and

Code:
$str1 = "$str1 $(echo $IFS) $str2"

None of those works Smilie

---------- Post updated at 12:36 PM ---------- Previous update was at 12:30 PM ----------

If I just say echo $str1 "\n" $str2 at the cmd prompt, it works fine. It does not work when I try to store it in variable... it loses the new line character when stored in a variable.
 

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STRNATCASECMP(3)							 1							  STRNATCASECMP(3)

strnatcasecmp - Case insensitive string comparisons using a ";natural order" algorithm

SYNOPSIS
int strnatcasecmp (string $str1, string $str2) DESCRIPTION
This function implements a comparison algorithm that orders alphanumeric strings in the way a human being would. The behaviour of this function is similar to strnatcmp(3), except that the comparison is not case sensitive. For more information see: Martin Pool's Natural Order String Comparison page. PARAMETERS
o $str1 - The first string. o $str2 - The second string. RETURN VALUES
Similar to other string comparison functions, this one returns < 0 if $str1 is less than $str2 > 0 if $str1 is greater than $str2, and 0 if they are equal. SEE ALSO
preg_match(3), strcmp(3), strcasecmp(3), substr(3), stristr(3), strncasecmp(3), strncmp(3), strstr(3), setlocale(3). PHP Documentation Group STRNATCASECMP(3)
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