[Gllug] Yes or no?

Ben Fitzgerald ben_m_f at yahoo.co.uk
Tue Nov 29 12:32:38 UTC 2005


On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 12:01:53PM +0000, Ian Scott wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 06:58:12PM +0000, Nix wrote:
> > #!/bin/bash
> > read x
> > case $x in
> >  [yY]*) echo thanks for saying yes;;
> > esac
> > 
> > which also lets you say yeah, yep, and so on.
> >
> 
> 
> <pickygit>
>  Of course, it also let's you say:
> 
>  you know, I'm not really sure.
> 
>  or
> 
> 
>  YIKES!  I don't think so
> 
> 
> </pickygit> 


my thoughts exactly. insist on "yes" or "no", stick it in a while loop.

let them type until they die if the cannot put one or the other! :-)

ben.

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