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Old 11-17-2008
Doubt on Array creation
Hi,


Suppose partition=9
then by checking that partition variable value ,i need to create an array variable which must contain 9 values and must be repeative as a,b,g,h,a,b,g,h,a...


Could you please help me in creating as above way..


Thanks in Advance,
Mansa
# 2  
Old 11-17-2008
Could you please help me in korn shell scripting.
# 3  
Old 11-17-2008
Code:
let cnt=0
for i in a b g h a b g h a b g h a b g h
do
   if [[ -z $partition  || $cnt -gt $partition ]] ; then
          break
   fi
   arr[$cnt]=$i
   cnt=$(( cnt = 1 ))   
done

# 4  
Old 11-18-2008
Thanks a lot Jim...
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