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Old 10-28-2010
Improving this validate function

Hi guys, I use this function which was provided to me by someone at this site. It works perfectly for validating a users input option against allowed options..

example:

validateInput "1" "1 3 4 5" would return 0 (success)

Code:
function validateInput {
 input=$1
 allowedInput=$2
 
 for allowedOption in ${allowedInput}
 do
  if [ ${input} -eq ${allowedOption} ]
  then
   return 0
  fi
 done
 
 return 1
}

but now we allow users to enter more than 1 number and so this validate needs to be improved

validateInput "16" "1 3 4 5" this should return fail (1) as 6 is not in the allowedInput string.. currently the function return success because "1" is in the allowedInput string.. but I somehow need it to verify all the numbers in the first parameter

any ideas guys?
 

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