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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to pass two words within double quotes as variable? Post 302901308 by srimitta on Tuesday 13th of May 2014 08:25:48 AM
Old 05-13-2014
How to pass two words within double quotes as variable?

Hi All,

OS - Suse 10
ksh --version
version sh (AT&T Research) 93s+ 2008-01-31

I am passing two words within double quotes ("Application Developer") to script as variable, but script is adding two single quotes between two words like ("Application' 'Developer").

below is simple test script which is part of a bigger script.

dummy.ksh
===========
Code:
#!/usr/bin/ksh
#

title='"Application Developer"'
echo $title

===========

When I ran script in debug mode, I can see echo is returning (echo "Application' 'Developer"), what echo is returning is what getting passed to another script but without two single quotes arourd double quotes..

Code:
user@server:~/tmp> ksh -x dummy.sh
+ title='"Application Developer"'
+ echo '"Application' 'Developer"'
"Application Developer"

I tried different ways what were suggested in several forums, but didn't help me, any idea how can

Thanks in advance
srimitta

Last edited by bartus11; 05-13-2014 at 09:28 AM.. Reason: Please use [code][/code] tags.
 

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NAME
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use CGI::Application::Dispatch::Regexp; CGI::Application::Dispatch::Regexp->dispatch( prefix => 'MyApp', table => [ '' => { app => 'Welcome', rm => 'start' }, qr|/([^/]+)/?| => { names => ['app'] }, qr|/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?| => { names => [qw(app rm)] }, qr|/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/page(d+).html?| => { names => [qw(app rm page)] }, ], ); DESCRIPTION
CGI::Application::Dispatch uses its own syntax dispatch table. "CGI::Application::Dispatch::Regexp" allows one to use flexible and powerful Perl regular expressions to transform a path into argument list. DISPATCH TABLE
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