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08-29-2013

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Can I suggest a case statement to simplify to logic.

Use break statement to leave while loop. Also notice some glob matching to allow upper or lower case first letter and quit/exit/done to leave.

Code:

while true
do
   echo "Please choose a month from January to December and that month will display which holiday is related to that month."
   read month
   case "$month" in
        [Jj]anuary)   echo "Martin Luther King Day is in the month of January." ;;
        [Ff]ebruary)  echo "President's Day is in the month of February." ;;
        [Mm]arch)     echo "There is no holiday in the month of March." ;;
        [Aa]pril)     echo "There is no holiday in the month of April." ;;
        [Mm]ay)       echo "Memorial Day is in the month of May." ;;
        [Jj]une)      echo "There is no holiday in the month of June." ;;
        [Jj]uly)      echo "The Fourth of July is in the month of July." ;;
        [Aa]ugust)    echo "There is no holiday in the month of August." ;;
        [Ss]eptember) echo "Labor Day is in the month of September." ;;
        [Oo]ctober)   echo "Columbus Day is in the month of October." ;;
        [Nn]ovember)  echo "Thanksgiving one of the most wonderful holidays, is in the month of November." ;;
        [Dd]ecember)  echo "Christmas is in the month of December." ;;
        [Dd]one|[Ee]xit|[Qq]uit) break ;;
        *)            echo "This month does not exist."
    esac
done

Also quick note on posting code to this forum, if you put [code] and [/code] tags around the code it stops any formatting (like indenting) from being lost as you can see above.

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EXECUTE(7)                                                         SQL Commands                                                         EXECUTE(7)

NAME

       EXECUTE - execute a prepared statement

SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

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