string comparisons

[Bill Stewart 908-949-0705 erebus.att.com!wcs]

In article <1991Mar14.225901.3973 at mrspoc.Transact.COM> steven at Transact.COM writes:
]acmfiu at serss0.fiu.edu (ACMFIU) writes:
]
]>under csh or sh, how do i compare two strings?
]
]Either use expr(1) or awk(1).  Depends on how elaborate you want to get.

The test program (aka "[") is accessible from either shell, and is a
builtin for modern shells like ksh.  In sh, just do
	if [ "$foo" = "$bar" ]
	then true-stuff
	else false-stuff
Read the manual for csh.
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