Login or Register to Ask a Question and Join Our Community

Sponsored Content
Full Discussion: string into variables
Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting string into variables Post 302524348 by hergp on Monday 23rd of May 2011 06:23:55 AM
Old 05-23-2011
One way would be
Code:
set $str
s1=$1
s2=$2
s3=$3
s4=$4

When the string comes from user input, you could also split the string into words during input, like
Code:
read s1 s2 s3 s4

When the user inputs "hello how are you", then s1 becomes "hello", s2 "how", and so on.
 

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. Shell Programming and Scripting

KSH split string into variables

Hello, I am an intermediate scripter. I can usually find and adapt what I need by searching through previous postings, but I'm stumped. I have a string with the format "{Name1 Release1 Type1 Parent1} {Name2 Release2 Type2 Parent2}". It is being passed as an argument into a ksh script. I need to... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: drd_2b
5 Replies

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

comparing 2 string variables in unix

search=Jul 22 date=Jul 22 if then echo They match >>this piece of code does not detect that search and date are equivalent strings.. what's wrong with it? (17 Replies)
Discussion started by: katdaniel16
17 Replies

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Passing string variables

HI all, Very new to shell programming and just wanted some help on how to solve the following problem. I have a small shell script which searches a given file and extracts some string parameters. I want to now be able to call this script from another shell script and somehow pass the parameters... (11 Replies)
Discussion started by: pxy2d1
11 Replies

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Compare String Variables for Greater or Less Than?

Is there any way to compare two strings for a greater or less than condition? For example, StringA is "apple" and StringB is "bonnet" and StringC is "captain". Can I only test for equal/not-equal, or is there a way to find out whether StringA is less than StringB, and StringC is greater than... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: OPTIMUS_prime
6 Replies

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Comparing String with Number variables

I have two variables and want to perform some functions after comparison $cat file1 14.abcde a=`cut -f 1 -d "." file1 b=15 if then .... fi but i got an error message says that unary operator expected and i think its because of $a is a string and trying to compare with... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: bonosungho
3 Replies

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

divide a string into variables

i have /tmp/dev/string1/testfile.txt i need only testfile.txt How can get that..can anyone helpme out Thanx (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: KiranKumarKarre
2 Replies

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

How to parse a string into variables

I'm working in korn shell and have a variable which contains a string like: aa_yyyymmdd_bbb_ccc_ddd.abc. I want to treat the _ and . as delimiters and parse the string so I end up with 6 values in variables that I can manipulate. My original plan was to use var1=`echo $sting1 | cut -c1-c2` but... (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: aquimby
9 Replies

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Help with setting variables extracted from a string

Hi guys, I'm using tcsh. I have a string that contains variable names: "var1:var2:var 3", I want to be able to do different operations on the content of those variables: I extract the variable names with: foreach var ( `echo $string | sed 's/:/\n/g'`) now in the variable `var` I have the... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: gofmarat
1 Replies

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

comparing variables to date as string

I have a file $ cat myfile A 02/16/2012 B 02/19/2012 C 02/20/2012 D 02/17/2012 E 02/16/2012 My simple script > cat myscript.sh mydate="02/16/2012" awk ' ($2~/$mydate/) {print $1}' < myfile but I got no output! and when I try $2~/'$mydate'/ I got: The error context is (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Sara_84
2 Replies

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Variables are not taken in a string

Here is what I'm trying to do. A query embedded with a unix variable is stored in the database table. When it is pulled out, it has a variable in it and it needs to be replaced by the variable passed to the script below. 1. select cast(cmd_string as varchar(1000)) from mytable where... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: sheila_ga2013
1 Replies

LEARN ABOUT HPUX

ctl_cyrusdb

CTL_CYRUSDB(8)						      System Manager's Manual						    CTL_CYRUSDB(8)

 *

NAME

       ctl_cyrusdb - perform operations common to all Cyrus databases

SYNOPSIS

       ctl_cyrusdb [ -C config-file ] -r [ -x ]
       ctl_cyrusdb [ -C config-file ] -c

DESCRIPTION

       Ctl_cyrusdb is used to perform various administrative operations on the Cyrus databases.

       Ctl_cyrusdb  reads its configuration options out of the imapd.conf(5) file unless specified otherwise by -C.  The configdirectory option is
       used to determine the default location of the Cyrus databases.

OPTIONS

       -C config-file
	      Read configuration options from config-file.

       -r     Recover the databases after an application or system failure.  Also performs database cleanup  like  removing  mailbox  reservations
	      (and any associated mailbox files).

	      All  mailbox  files  are	also checked to make sure the file format matches the configured database type in imapd.conf.  If not, the
	      file is automatically converted using the same logic as cvt_cyrusdb.

       -x     Used with -r to recover the database only.  (Prevents database cleanup).

       -c     Checkpoint and archive the databases.  Changes to the database which are part of committed transactions are written to disk.   Also,
	      a hot backup of the databases is made and inactive log files are removed.

FILES

       /etc/imapd.conf

SEE ALSO

       imapd.conf(5), cyrmaster(8)

CMU
								   Project Cyrus						    CTL_CYRUSDB(8)
All times are GMT -4. The time now is 11:24 AM.
Unix & Linux Forums Content Copyright 1993-2022. All Rights Reserved.
Privacy Policy