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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting To Check whether the Input is a Year or Not? Post 302682553 by Don Cragun on Monday 6th of August 2012 11:38:03 AM
Old 08-06-2012
Note that
Code:
case $Test_Var in

[1000-9999] )  echo "It is a Year";;
 * )           echo "Is is not a Year";;
esac

will match a single character that is 1, 0, 0, any single digit in the range 0 through 9, 9, 9, or 9. So if Test_var had been set to "6", it would say it is a year. Bracket expressions don't look for ranges of numeric values.

Hope this helps you understand what was going wrong.
 

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