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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting check if a string is numeric Post 302572602 by megha2525 on Thursday 10th of November 2011 10:56:17 AM
Old 11-10-2011
check if a string is numeric

I checked all the previous threads related to this and tried this.
My input is all numbers or decimals greater than zero everytime.
I want to check the same in the korn shell script.
Just validate the string to be numeric.
This is what I am doing.

Code:
 
var="12345"
if  [[ "$var" !=  +([0-9]) -o  "$var"  != +([0-9]).+([0-9]) ]] ; then
echo "not numric" 
else
echo "it is numeric"
fi

I get a syntax error -o unexpected.
-o is used as a logical or operator right ?
Please let me know if am doing something wrong.
 

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