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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers how to check first character in var's value. Post 76899 by yongho on Friday 1st of July 2005 10:38:30 AM
Old 07-01-2005
how to check first character in var's value.

Currently my script works like this:

Code:
DATE_dd=5 # Assume this is user input. (User can enter 1, 2, 3, .. 10, 11, 12)

if [ ${#DATE_dd} == 1 ]; then
        DATE_D=" ${DATE_dd}"
        file_name="${DATE_yyyy}${DATE_mm}0${DATE_dd}.csv"
    else
        DATE_D=${DATE_dd}
        file_name="${DATE_yyyy}${DATE_mm}${DATE_dd}.csv"
    fi

The way it is now is, it checks the length of the variable, but I want to change it so that it will check to see if the first character of the value of the variable is zero or not so that the user can input values like "06, 07, 08" instead of "6, 7, 8".

I am aware of ${variable:start}, ${variable:start:length}, but could i stick that in the if statement?

if [ ${DATE_dd}, ${DATE_dd:0:1} == 1 ]; ?

Because if I want to run DATE_dd=`date +%d` then on a day like today "01" it will fail to GREP the LS -AL command to today's date, since the ls -al displays the day as a single digit, without padded zeroes.

Last edited by yongho; 07-01-2005 at 11:46 AM..
 

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