Case statement in Korn Shell 2

[idiotboy]

Hi,

I've got the syntax for the case statement in korn shell (running on Solaris) but I can't figure out how to pose a question and read the answer as the input to the case statement. Do I just

print "Quesion:y/n"
read ans

ans="y"
case $ans in
y) print "blah blah";;
n) print "blah blah blah";;
esac

help

idiotboy

 

[grega]

You've pretty much got it. Don't think you should be setting ans="y" after you've read it though ...

echo "Question:y/n"
read ans

case $ans in
y) print "you entered y";;
n) print "you entered n";;
*) print "enter y or n";;
esac

Greg.

 

[jared71]

It looks like you have it correct:

#!/bin/ksh
echo "Question:y/n"
read ans
case $ans in
"y[Y]&quot
echo "You've entered Yes."
;;
"n[N]&quot
echo "You've entered No."
;;
*)
echo "please enter a Y or N"
;;
esac


-Jared