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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting [Solved] Testing Data Type of User Input Post 302884227 by mohamed91 on Saturday 18th of January 2014 05:06:12 PM
Old 01-18-2014
thanks bakunin for your response
i'm using UNIX solaries ksh
i'm work on DBMS project i finished create ,search ,truncate, delete , drop , .... and insert
but i've a bug in the insert function
it always see the input write .. for example if u give a alpha to numeric field ,it accept it !
i did the check like that
-->
Code:
x=`echo "$*\c" | wc -c`
y=`echo "$*\c" | tr -d "[:digit:]" | wc -c`

if [ $y -eq 0 ]
 then
 echo the i/p is numerical
 elif [ $y -eq $x ]
 then
 echo the i/p is alpha
 elif [ $y -lt $x ]
 then
 echo the i/p is alphanum
fi

-->

Moderator's Comments:
Mod Comment edit by bakunin: please use CODE-tags when posting code

Last edited by bakunin; 01-18-2014 at 08:33 PM..
 

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