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# 8  
Old 03-26-2014
Please use [CODE] tags, not [ICODE] tags.

Anyway, can you have a newline after the in keyword and the expression and see if that helps. Look at the example given for the neat way to write code that is syntactically correct.

You would normally also have a *) option to handle anything unexpected.



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# 9  
Old 03-26-2014
You havent respected the strict syntax of case...

Code:
case "$var1" in 
         ABCD|ASDF|WEDF|YUIO)   echo The queue is $var1
              ;;
          *)   echo "No match"
             ;;
esac

Last edited by vbe; 03-26-2014 at 01:25 PM.. Reason: added Robin's suggestion...
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# 10  
Old 03-26-2014
Also, that case expression does an exact match. If you want a substring match:

Code:
*ABCD*|*ASDF*|*WEDF*|*YUIO*)

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Old 03-27-2014
That worked!!! Thanks a ton Corona & folks, for the quick response.
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