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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Case with list of pickes Post 302917799 by Don Cragun on Thursday 18th of September 2014 03:03:15 PM
Old 09-18-2014
Here is another way to do this just using standard interfaces:
Code:
queuecreate() {
	echo "1  - Bread"
	echo "10 - Milk"
	echo "11 - Suger"
	echo "14 - Coffee"     
	printf 'What do you need? (Enter space separated list of codes): '
	read QT
	set -- $QT

	for choice in "$@"
	do	case $choice in
		(1)	echo "You Chose Bread";;
		(10)	echo "You Chose Milk";;
		(11)	echo "You Chose Suger";;
		(14)	echo "You Chose Coffee";;
		(*)	printf 'Code "%s" is not valid\n' "$choice";;
		esac
	done
}
while [ 1 ]
do	queuecreate
	printf 'Try again? (y or n): '
	read resp
	case $resp in
	(N*|n*)	exit 0
	esac
done

Note that I used 1, 10, 11, and 14 just to get the resulting values into double digits without needing to enter 10 choices. If you want to print a more English like list with commas and an "and" where appropriate, you can easily complicate the logic in the case statement a little bit to make that happen.

Does this help?
 

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noecho

echo(3XCURSES)						  X/Open Curses Library Functions					    echo(3XCURSES)

NAME

       echo, noecho - enable/disable terminal echo

SYNOPSIS

       cc [ flag... ] file... -I /usr/xpg4/include  -L	/usr/xpg4/lib 
	-R  /usr/xpg4/lib  -lcurses  [ library... ]

       c89 [ flag... ] file... -lcurses [ library... ]

       #include <curses.h>

       int echo(void);

       int noecho(void);

DESCRIPTION

       The  echo()  function enables Echo mode for the current screen. The noecho() function disables Echo mode for the current screen. Initially,
       curses software echo mode is enabled and hardware echo mode of the tty driver is disabled. The echo() and noecho() functions control  soft-
       ware echo only. Hardware echo must remain disabled for the duration of the application, else the behavior is undefined.

RETURN VALUES

       Upon successful completion, these functions return OK. Otherwise, they return ERR.

ERRORS

       No errors are defined.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |Standard			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |MT-Level		     |Unsafe			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       getch(3XCURSES), getstr(3XCURSES), initscr(3XCURSES), libcurses(3XCURSES), scanw(3XCURSES), attributes(5), standards(5)

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