Re: [Bashburn-info] Pressing any key in menu balks

[Nick W. <ni...@uk...>]

On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:45:31 +0100
Nick Warne <ni...@uk...> wrote:

> On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:03:10 -0400 (EDT)
> "Steven W. Orr" <st...@sy...> wrote:
> 
> > I pulled a rabbit outa ma hat. I hope we didn't step on each other.
> 
> NP.
> 
> > if (( selection == 0 )) && [[ "$chselection" != 0 ]]
> > then
> >     echo 'Error: Input must be numeric'
> > elif (( selection >= 0 && selection < size )) 
> > then
> >     eval ${action[selection]}       # Do it baby.
> > else
> >     # Bitch if the input was out of bounds.
> >     echo 'Error: Input must be in range'
> >     nogood=1
> > fi
> 
> Very good.  Many ways to skin a cat in GNU/Linux world.
> 
> Works great.
> 
> Nick

Famous last words.  If you type a none digit/alpha character (i.e. # ~
@ etc. ) oops.

The regex line I done just stripped anything that wasn't a digit.

Nick
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