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# 1  
Old 10-13-2011
Variable length
Hi All,

I have an issue in my script.

Once we fired the script, it will ask for some input to execute further. Inside the script, I'm taking that value into a variable. But it's taking some limited length of input only in a variable. After some limited length, it's not taking the value.

Could anyone let me know how to increase the variable length to max?

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
VRN
# 2  
Old 10-13-2011
How big is your value? Some examples?
# 3  
Old 10-13-2011
my value will be more than 3 lines like below


Quote:
"v1.011.12 v1.011.13 v1.011.14 v1.011.15 v1.011.16 v1.011.17 v1.011.18 v1.011.19 v1.011.20 v1.011.21 v1.011.22 v1.011.23 v1.011.24 v1.011.25 v1.011.26 v1.011.27 v1.011.28 v1.011.29 v1.011.30 v1.011.31 v1.011.32 v1.011.33 v1.011.34 v1.011.35 v1.011.36 v1.011.37 v1.011.38 v1.011.39 v1.011.40 v1.011.41 v1.011.42 v1.011.43 v1.011.44 v1.011.45 v1.011.46 v1.011.47 v1.011.48 v1.011.49 v1.011.50 v1.011.51 v1.011.52 v1.011.53 v1.011.54 v1.011.55 v1.011.56 v1.011.57 v1.011.58 v1.011.59 v1.011.60 v1.011.61 v1.011.62 v1.011.63 v1.011.64 v1.011.65 v1.011.66 v1.011.67 v1.011.68 v1.011.69 v1.011.70"
Sometimes it may be more than 10 lines also.

Pls suggest the way to achieve this..

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
VRN

# 4  
Old 10-14-2011
On max length of variable I'm not sure..but it is definitely depends on machice bits.

I have a another solution for you.

Try to use array.
Code:
read -a line;
echo ${a[*]}

hope above will help to run your script.
Last edited by Franklin52; 10-14-2011 at 03:37 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags, thank you
# 5  
Old 10-14-2011
Arrays are limited to the size of a variable too.

You can't depend on the size of a variable being any more than 4096 bytes.

There's probably ways to do what you want to do without storing the entire thing in a variable. What is your actual goal here?
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