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by **Smit** » Fri, 29 Oct 2004 16:04:00

hi,
My script accept user input into a variable USRIP.
I only want input to have (aA-zZ or 0-9).
How do I check that the variable USRIP doesn't has special character (e.g

Thanks and regards

by **Alexis Huxle** » Fri, 29 Oct 2004 16:49:05

> My script accept user input into a variable USRIP.
> I only want input to have (aA-zZ or 0-9).
> How do I check that the variable USRIP doesn't has special character (e.g

How about:

if ! expr "$USRIP" : '[a-zA-Z0-9]*$' > /dev/null; then
echo "bad input"
return 1 # or exit or whatever
fi

Repeat the square-bracketed term to specify at least one
occurence of one of those chars if empty input is not
acceptable.

Alexis

by **Stephane CHAZELA** » Fri, 29 Oct 2004 17:01:11

2004-10-28, 15:04(+08), Smith:

> My script accept user input into a variable USRIP.
> I only want input to have (aA-zZ or 0-9).
> How do I check that the variable USRIP doesn't has special character (e.g

[...]

case $USRIP in
*[!a-zA-Z0-9]*) echo >&2 invalid characters;;
*) echo OK;;
esac

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Stephane

by **Stephane CHAZELA** » Fri, 29 Oct 2004 17:08:23

2004-10-28, 09:49(+02), Alexis Huxley:
[...]

Quote:> How about:

> if ! expr "$USRIP" : '[a-zA-Z0-9]*$' > /dev/null; then
> echo "bad input"
> return 1 # or exit or whatever
> fi

[...]

Note that the ! operator is not Bourne even if POSIX.

Try the above with $USRIP as "(", "="...

Should be:

! expr "_$USRIP" : '_[a-zA-Z0-9]*$'

or more portably:

expr $ "_$USRIP" : '_[a-zA-Z0-9]*$' $ = 0

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by **Alan Conno** » Fri, 29 Oct 2004 17:21:39

> hi, My script accept user input into a variable USRIP. I only
> want input to have (aA-zZ or 0-9). How do I check that the

> etc) and only has aA-zZ and 0-9?

> Thanks and regards

Here's one way, Smith:

(assuming bash or the like)

echo $USRIP | if grep '[^a-zA-Z0-9]' ; then do <whatever>
else <whatever>; fi

AC

by **dfre..** » Sat, 30 Oct 2004 02:16:53

> 2004-10-28, 15:04(+08), Smith:
> > My script accept user input into a variable USRIP.
> > I only want input to have (aA-zZ or 0-9).
> > How do I check that the variable USRIP doesn't has special
character (e.g

> [...]

> case $USRIP in
> *[!a-zA-Z0-9]*) echo >&2 invalid characters;;
> *) echo OK;;
> esac

Same concept, opposite logic, using an "if" statement and pattern
operator:

#!/usr/bin/ksh93
if [[ "_${USRIP}" = _+([A-Za-z0-9]) ]]
then
print "contains only desired chars"
else
print -u 2 "contains invalid chars"
fi

And in a "case" statement:

#!/usr/bin/ksh93
case "${USRIP}" in
+([A-Za-z0-9])) print "contains only desired chars";;
*) print -u 2 "contains invalid chars";;
esac

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by **William Par** » Sat, 30 Oct 2004 04:17:51

> hi,
> My script accept user input into a variable USRIP.
> I only want input to have (aA-zZ or 0-9).
> How do I check that the variable USRIP doesn't has special character (e.g

Hint:
glob
[!A-Za-z0-9]
[[:alnum:]]

regex
[^A-Za-z0-9]
[[:alnum:]]

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by **Stephane CHAZELA** » Sat, 30 Oct 2004 15:50:29

[...]

Quote:> #!/usr/bin/ksh93
> if [[ "_${USRIP}" = _+([A-Za-z0-9]) ]]

Why do you use the quotes and the "_". The [[ ... ]] was
introduced especially to avoid the need for that. It doesn't
harm, though.

[[ $USRIP = +(A-Za-z0-9) ]]

should be enough.

Quote:> then
> print "contains only desired chars"
> else
> print -u 2 "contains invalid chars"

print -u 2 "contains invalid chars or is empty"

or use [[ $USRIP = *(A-Za-z0-9) ]]

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by **dfre..** » Sat, 30 Oct 2004 22:28:11

> [...]
> > #!/usr/bin/ksh93
> > if [[ "_${USRIP}" = _+([A-Za-z0-9]) ]]

> Why do you use the quotes and the "_". The [[ ... ]] was
> introduced especially to avoid the need for that. It doesn't
> harm, though.

Years of bourne shell programming, now if I don't include the "_" it
just doesn't look right.

--
Dana French

by **dfre..** » Sun, 31 Oct 2004 01:18:41

> [...]
> > #!/usr/bin/ksh93
> > if [[ "_${USRIP}" = _+([A-Za-z0-9]) ]]

> Why do you use the quotes and the "_". The [[ ... ]] was
> introduced especially to avoid the need for that. It doesn't
> harm, though.

> [[ $USRIP = +(A-Za-z0-9) ]]

> should be enough.

Actually, it probably should be changed to:

if [[ "${USRIP}" == +([[:alnum:]]) ]]

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