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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting why doesnt my script work!!! Post 47847 by Heedunk on Friday 20th of February 2004 12:27:10 AM
Old 02-20-2004
why doesnt my script work!!!

I get an expr syntax error. here is my code


#!/bin/sh
echo 'Enter a number: \c'
read number

echo $number > test #copy value in number to file test

decimal=`wc -m test` #read decimal places for test

answer=`expr $decimal - 1` #remove new line character

case $answer in
1)
echo One
;;
2)
echo Ten
;;
3)
echo Hundred
;;
4)
echo Thousand
;;
5)
echo Ten Hundred
;;
6)
echo Million
;;
7)
echo Ten Million
;;
8)
echo Hunderd Million
;;
*)
error: value exceeds limitations of program
;;
esac
 

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LOCALE_GET_DISPLAY_SCRIPT(3)						 1					      LOCALE_GET_DISPLAY_SCRIPT(3)

Locale::getDisplayScript - Returns an appropriately localized display name for script of the input locale

	Object oriented style

SYNOPSIS
publicstatic string Locale::getDisplayScript (string $locale, [string $in_locale]) DESCRIPTION
Procedural style string locale_get_display_script (string $locale, [string $in_locale]) Returns an appropriately localized display name for script of the input locale. If is NULL then the default locale is used. PARAMETERS
o $locale - The locale to return a display script for o $in_locale - Optional format locale to use to display the script name RETURN VALUES
Display name of the script for the $locale in the format appropriate for $in_locale. EXAMPLES
Example #1 locale_get_display_script(3) example <?php echo locale_get_display_script('sl-Latn-IT-nedis', 'en'); echo "; "; echo locale_get_display_script('sl-Latn-IT-nedis', 'fr'); echo "; "; echo locale_get_display_script('sl-Latn-IT-nedis', 'de'); ?> Example #2 OO example <?php echo Locale::getDisplayScript('sl-Latn-IT-nedis', 'en'); echo "; "; echo Locale::getDisplayScript('sl-Latn-IT-nedis', 'fr'); echo "; "; echo Locale::getDisplayScript('sl-Latn-IT-nedis', 'de'); ?> The above example will output: Latin; latin; Lateinisch SEE ALSO
locale_get_display_name(3), locale_get_display_language(3), locale_get_display_region(3), locale_get_display_variant(3). PHP Documentation Group LOCALE_GET_DISPLAY_SCRIPT(3)
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