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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers how to break within a case/esac and stay in script Post 67278 by tumblez on Tuesday 22nd of March 2005 07:07:12 AM
Old 03-22-2005
how to break within a case/esac and stay in script

Wrote the following loop to but if I use exit, then I break entirely from my script, but instead I want to break from the case/esac and go to the next line in my script. I guess I need to know how to exit gracefully from a "while (true). Also, how can I allow the user to enter upper or lowercase as valid responses. An "A", will be treated the same as an "a", without replicating logic?

Code:
while (true)
do
  echo "  a b c "   
  echo " Enter one of the environments from above: \c"
  read reply
   case $reply in
      a)  echo a is valid & exit  ;;        
      b)  echo b is valid & exit ;;
      c)  echo c is valid & exit ;;
      *)  echo $reply is not valid - try again
   esac
done

 

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geoip_id_by_name - Get the Internet connection type

SYNOPSIS
int geoip_id_by_name (string $hostname) DESCRIPTION
The geoip_id_by_name(3) function will return the Internet connection type corresponding to a hostname or an IP address. The return value is numeric and can be compared to the following constants: o GEOIP_UNKNOWN_SPEED o GEOIP_DIALUP_SPEED o GEOIP_CABLEDSL_SPEED o GEOIP_CORPORATE_SPEED PARAMETERS
o $hostname - The hostname or IP address whose connection type is to be looked-up. RETURN VALUES
Returns the connection type. EXAMPLES
Example #1 A geoip_id_by_name(3) example This will output the connection type of the host example.com. <?php $netspeed = geoip_id_by_name('www.example.com'); echo 'The connection type is '; switch ($netspeed) { case GEOIP_DIALUP_SPEED: echo 'dial-up'; break; case GEOIP_CABLEDSL_SPEED: echo 'cable or DSL'; break; case GEOIP_CORPORATE_SPEED: echo 'corporate'; break; case GEOIP_UNKNOWN_SPEED: default: echo 'unknown'; } ?> The above example will output: The connection type is corporate PHP Documentation Group GEOIP_ID_BY_NAME(3)
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