typeset question?

[RAC_1]

typeset -i is for intergersonly. You are entering the intergers. Just read something will do.

[Bill Hassell]

As mentioned, typeset -i is for a single integer. When you entered the dots for an IP address, typeset failed because the dot is illegal for an integer. You need to read your input as a string, then parse the string into the 4 numbers. You could also do this with IFS but this is more complex. Do you want the result of the 4 numbers to be converted into an integer?

[lnl]

Bill,

I want it to read numbers only with dots and then echo the full input. That's all.

Any examples?

[Bill Hassell]

You can do this:

print "Enter numbers? \c"
read
echo "$REPLY"

The read statement reads everything on the line and if no variable is specified, then everything is assigned to REPLY. You use a variable with mixed characters by surrounding it with double quotes.

[Muthukumar_5]

Simply use without typeset -i input setting.

print "Enter numbers? \c"
read input > /dev/null 2>&1
echo $input

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Muthu

[lnl]

thanks