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Thanks for the prompt response. I updated the fruit types, one of the "apple" columns should have been "pineapple", which I have updated, also updated the newprice variable, which was supposed to be...

Hello All,

I am trying to replace a column within a line that has a certain fruit name. I have a bunch of line such as:



apple:green:5cents:CA
pineapple:red:4cents:FL...

Genius! Just what the doctor ordered, perfect. I appreciate the help.

Hello All,

I am trying to take a colon-delimited line from a bunch of lines such as

apple:green:5cents:CA
apple:red:4cents:FL
orange:green:6cents:HI

...and display it vertically with...

Okay, I will give that a shot.

It displays the options and I am able to center it but just not left justified as can be accomplished with Here document.

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Yes, I do have other while loop in there now as well as a case structure.

Korn shell. I have updated the initial post to reflect this.

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Yes, you are right, that was a forum...

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In ksh I am trying to ensure that user inputs are integers otherwise redisplay prompt with the following code;

a=0
b=0
c=0

read b?"Please enter a number: "
read c?"Please enter...

Yes, I read it, which is what I responded to when I said it wasn't what I was looking for and really need to get the here document to work.

Thanx for the response, I tried the suggested $(cat <<MENU... but that made no difference and the other option does not provide the needed solution. I am really hoping that the here document has a...

Thanx for the response. What I had to do was to wrap the code up in a while loop and use a continue at the bottom so that the program continues from the top of the loop again until the user makes a...

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I was wondering how I can assign a here document facility to a variable. I have tried the following:

menu=$(<<MENU
Option1
Option2
Option3
Option4
MENU
)

...but when I echo...

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I was wondering how after processing a program down to the bottom of the program one can return to the only while loop in the program.

Thanx,

You are a genius. I tried everything but that. Thanx, man.

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I successfully assigned several operators to a variable but multiplication seems to be a pain. I have tried operator=\\* but that does not seem to work when used in an expression unlike...

The same code seems to be working fine now, not sure why the system delivered bad output several times earlier. Thanx for the prompt response.

Hello All,

I am trying to join two files, each with differing delimiters. file1 has

doe, john 10.00 60.00 4.00 5.00
doe, jane 10.00 60.00 4.00 5.00

...while file2 has the following content:...