From: Steve Thornhill (steve_thornhill@UK.IBM.COM)
Date: Thu Jul 11 2002 - 10:34:36 EDT
var_1="first var"
var_2="second var"
var_3="third var"
read user_input
# user enters "2"
case $user_input in
1)
$var=$var_1;;
2)
$var=$var_2;;
3)
$var=$var_3;;
*)
$var="invalid var";;
esac
echo "User selected the ${var}iation"
# expected result is: "User selected the second variation"
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Robert Bardos
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An easy one for most of you,
given a piece of code like this:
var_1="first var"
var_2="second var"
var_3="third var"
read user_input
# user enters "2"
echo "User selected the ????iation"
# expected result is: "User selected the second variation"
Is there some kind of recursive variable resolution, ie. like
$var_$user_input, that would resolve into the expected result and if yes,
how would I have to code this?
What book would you recommend for a beginner who wants to write some "more
than trivial" shell scripts? (Or should I leave it at that and learn Pearl
instead?)
TIA
Robert
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