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Re: case statement question again...



David Oswald wrote:
  >Hello all - I have a KSH script question...
  >
  >sorry - the offending line is [10-31]) not [30-31])

What `[10-31]' says is: match any single character which is a 1, a character
from 0 to 3 inclusive, or (another) 1.  What you want is `[12][0-9]|3[0-1]'.

On the other hand, this does not properly handle invalid day/month
combinations, such as 31 February.  Do you handle that somewhere else?

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