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Old 08-19-2004
Variable Testing for size

How do you test a variable size to know if it is empty or not?
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Old 08-19-2004
Ummm... do you think that the technique is the same for all languages?
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Old 08-19-2004
my mistake. It is in korn shell

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Old 08-19-2004
There are many ways. One is:

if [[ -z $var ]] ; then
echo var is empty
fi
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Old 08-19-2004
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