Shell Programming and Scripting

I finally got it working. My problem? I apparently saved/or ftp'ed the .properties in a non ascii format. grrrrrrrr.
thanks for responses tho

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Hi, sorry one more question.
If my properties file contained a line like
IAH,ATL,FRA,ODA = 128
And I read in this line and wanted to know if ATL=128 how would this look like? I have experimented with a couple things and keep messing it up. Oh and this line listed above can change so its not fixed with 4 values.
thanks again

The extra spaces you put everywhere in your config files make this a lot harder. It's also hard having to write this in bare-bones sh. In BASH or KSH I could split the list into an array, in sh the straightforward way is to grep it...

Code:

# Read IAH,ATL,FRA,ODA = 128 from a file
IFS="=" read VARS VALUE < file
# Delete extra spaces from $VARS
VARS=`echo "$VARS" | tr -d ' '`
# Check if ATL is in the string, making sure it's not just part of a var name
if echo "$VARS" | egrep -q "(^|,)ATL($|,)" &&
        [ "$VALUE" -eq 128 ]
then
    echo "ATL = 128"
fi