Re: Little script help please
Hello,
Just came across the original message, and found that this is
indeed perl, and your comments are probably correct.
My comments were specific to Shell script, not Perl script.
Bill Suetholz
On 08-Sep-00 Mervyn Jack wrote:
> Our programmer, Andrew, tells me the problem is with the lines...
> if [ $hessian_colour="twotone" ]; then
>
> The "=" set's $hession_colour to twotone and returns a TRUE to say the
> operation
> has been successful.
> You need to use a "==" to compare the two values.
> For String comparisons, you should really use the word "eq".
>
>
> Mervyn
>
>
> ridgey wrote:
>
>> Below is a script I am writing, what it does it take in values from webpage
>> and basically just write them to a file. What I am trying to do is: there
>> is heap of different sections on the page, hessian, linen and more to be
>> added. I want the script to ONLY write to file the section that is selected
>> and leave the rest out. I think maybe I have done something wrong with the
>> ifs as it writes every field to the file when I have specified no values so
>> the file should be blank.
>> Any help greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Ridgey
>>
>> /home/httpsd/temp/countryhats
>> fi
>> if [ $hessian_colour="twotone" ]; then
>> echo "Hessian Selected" >> /home/httpsd/temp/countryhats
>> echo "Twotone - First Tone Selected = $h_tone_one" >>
>> /home/httpsd/temp/countryhats
>> echo "Twotone - First Tone Selected = $h_tone_two" >>
>> /home/httpsd/temp/country
>> fi
>> if [ $linen_colour="onecolour" ]; then
>> echo "Linen Selected" >> /home/httpsd/temp/countryhats
>> echo "One Colour - Colour Selected = $l_colour" >>
>> /home/httpsd/temp/countryhats
>> fi
>>
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