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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting string into variables Post 302524340 by lakshmikanthe on Monday 23rd of May 2011 05:57:42 AM
Old 05-23-2011
Error string into variables

Hi,
i am new to Shell Scripting, i want to get some input from user which is string, and i want to store it into variables.

Eg:

str='hello how are you'

i want to store this string into 4variables
lyk s1=hello
s2=how
s3=are
s4=you

thanks,
lak
 

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curs_inwstr(3X) 														   curs_inwstr(3X)

NAME
inwstr, innwstr, winwstr, winnwstr, mvinwstr, mvinnwstr, mvwinwstr, mvwinnwstr - get a string of wchar_t characters from a curses window SYNOPSIS
#include <curses.h> int inwstr(wchar_t *str); int innwstr(wchar_t *str, int n); int winwstr(WINDOW *win, wchar_t *str); int winnwstr(WINDOW *win, wchar_t *str, int n); int mvinwstr(int y, int x, wchar_t *str); int mvinnwstr(int y, int x, wchar_t *str, int n); int mvwinwstr(WINDOW *win, int y, int x, wchar_t *str); int mvwinnwstr(WINDOW *win, int y, int x, wchar_t *str, int n); DESCRIPTION
These routines return a string of wchar_t characters in wstr, extracted starting at the current cursor position in the named window. Attributes are stripped from the characters. The four functions with n as the last argument return a leading substring at most n bytes long (exclusive of the trailing NUL). Transfer stops at the end of the current line, or when n bytes have been stored at the location ref- erenced by wstr. If the size n is not large enough to store a complete character, an error is generated. NOTES
Note that all routines except winnwstr may be macros. RETURN VALUES
All routines return ERR upon failure. Upon successful completion, the *inwstr routines return OK, and the *innwstr routines return the num- ber of characters read into the string. SEE ALSO
curses(3X), curs_instr(3X), curs_in_wchstr(3X) curs_inwstr(3X)
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