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<pre wrap="">Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 19:29:09 +0000
From: Richard Jones <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:rich@annexia.org"><rich@annexia.org></a>
Subject: Re: [Gllug] Bash Data validation libraries
To: Greater London Linux User Group <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:gllug@gllug.org.uk"><gllug@gllug.org.uk></a>
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On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 03:06:06PM +0000, David Abbishaw wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Hi, Just wondered if anyone had any good resources for pre written bash
or ksh libraries for doing in particular data validation. Although
anything might be useful at the moment.
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Data validation ...? What sort of data and how do you want to check it?
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Mostly I want to be able to check user input, normally from a read
statement for things like, length, number of '.'s if there entering an
IP address or name. That the only characters entered are a-z 0-9 as
when cuting and pasting from excel/word other non printable characted
can get pasted.<br>
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<pre wrap="">Rich.
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