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Old 12-03-2007
Using arrays with conditionals

Pardon the pseudo code below, but I'm wondering how I would do something along the lines of this...

Code:
#!/bin/sh

excludeList="A B"
theItem="C"

if [ $theItem !exists in excludeList ]
	then
	echo $theItem
fi

I know I could loop through the array and check against each value, but was wondering if there was an alternate way to do that.

Thanks.
# 2  
Old 12-03-2007
A couple of functions I use are....

Code:
is_member()
{
	is_member_1=$1
	shift
	for is_member_i in $@
	do
		if test "$is_member_i" = "$is_member_1"
		then
			return 0
		fi
	done
	return 1
}

not_member()
{
	not_member_1=$1
	shift
	for not_member_i in $@
	do
		if test "$not_member_1" = "$not_member_i"
		then
			return 1
		fi
	done
	return 0
}

so then you can use as

Code:
if is_member "$something" $LISTOFTHINGS
then
     echo it exists
fi

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