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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Epic - Validate input size Post 302731191 by kshji on Wednesday 14th of November 2012 11:56:48 AM
Old 11-14-2012
Code:
numbers()
{
  str="$1"
  len=$2
  # replace all numbers with nothing = rest is not numbers
  notnumbers=${str//[0-9]/}
  [ "$notnumbers" != "" ] && return 1
  [ ${#str} != $len ]  && return 2
  return 0
}

#####

for tst in abc123 0123456789 123ABC123A 5555666666 677676767676 66262626266
do
        numbers "$tst" 10 && echo "$tst OK" || echo "$tst not ok"
done

 

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sasl_utf8verify(3SASL)			      Simple Authentication Security Layer Library Functions			    sasl_utf8verify(3SASL)

NAME
sasl_utf8verify - encode base64 string SYNOPSIS
cc [ flag ... ] file ... -lsasl [ library ... ] #include <sasl/saslutil.h> int sasl_utf8verify(const char *str, unsigned len); DESCRIPTION
Use the sasl_utf8verify() interface to verify that a string is valid UTF-8 and does not contain NULL, a carriage return, or a linefeed. If len ==0, strlen(str) will be used. PARAMETERS
str A string len The length of the string RETURN VALUES
sasl_utf8verify() returns an integer that corresponds to a SASL error code. ERRORS
SASL_OK The call to sasl_utf8verify() was successful. SASL_BADPROT There was invalid UTF-8, or an error was found. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWlibsasl | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability |Evolving | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |MT-Level |MT-Safe | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
attributes(5) SunOS 5.10 1 Oct 2003 sasl_utf8verify(3SASL)
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