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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Convert a String to a Number Post 302994017 by rbatte1 on Friday 17th of March 2017 12:51:09 PM
Old 03-17-2017
You need to be careful that you validate the input, else you can end up with this:-
Code:
$ typeset -i wally
$ wally=abc
$ echo $wally
0
$ wally=123abc456
bash: 123abc456: value too great for base (error token is "123abc456")
$

Perhaps you would be better to do something more like this after you read in num1 & num2:-
Code:
vnum1=$(tr -cd "[0-9]" < <(echo $num1))
if [ "$vnum1" != $"num1" ]
then
   echo "Invalid input!"
   exit
fi

It's a bit messy, but keeping it all as strings means that the shell doesn't care what the contents are. You can always for it to an integer afterwards should you wish.



I hope that this helps,
Robin
 

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