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Homework and Emergencies Homework & Coursework Questions passing letters from an array into a string for string comparison Post 302602983 by lotsofideas on Tuesday 28th of February 2012 10:51:47 PM
Old 02-28-2012
Booyah! I got it to work. Thank you.

I was able to make it work like this:
tempWordString1=${wordString[*]}
tempWordString2="${tempWordString1// /}"

and then testing if [ "$theWord" == "$tempWordString2" ]

I was not able to get it to work like this:
tempWordString="${${wordString[*]}// /}"
i tried playing with the syntax (pulling out $, adding " ")but couldn't get it to work. Is there a way to do parameter expansion directly on an array?

Again, thank you.
Last edited by lotsofideas; 02-28-2012 at 11:56 PM..
 

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