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From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: string comparisons
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Date: 13 Mar 91 18:40:08 GMT
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In article <2847@kluge.fiu.edu>, acmfiu@serss0.fiu.edu (ACMFIU) writes:
|> under csh or sh, how do i compare two strings?

  Could you be more specific?  What kind of comparisons do you want to do?

  Csh supports simple string-equal comparisons, as well as pattern-matching. 
The "test" or "[" command in sh can be used to do basic comparisons of
strings, and "expr" and be used to do regular expression comparisons.

  Of course, you can use "test" and "expr" in csh too, but if you don't need
the regular expression capabilities of "expr", you're better off sticking to
the csh built-ins for speed.

  See the various man pages for more information, or post more specific
questions here.

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