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for loop question

hpuxrocks — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 13:22:40 GMT

Hi there

I have 3 values, each comprising 3 elements.
On the command line:

for i in '1 2 3' '4 5 6' '7 8 9' etc works

but in a script all hell breaks loose.

can anyone assist pls ?

I would like to run this within a script but Ive tried "'1 2 3' '4 5 6' '7 8 9' " and ''1 2 3' '4 5 6' '7 8 9' ' ...and both dont work.

Thks in advance

Re: for loop question

hpuxrocks — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 13:25:52 GMT

sorry ...I forgot to add that within a script it DOES work but I would like to create a variable ..so

elements="'123' '456' '789'"

and then do

for i in $elements ....

this is the bit that goes wrong.
Id like to setup a var in case I have a huge number of elements - thks and sorry for the confusion

Re: for loop question

James R. Ferguson — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 13:49:32 GMT

Hi:

> but in a script all hell breaks loose.

That's a useless description. Show us the script (or better an example case with code) and describe what you want to do and what does happen.

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: for loop question

James R. Ferguson — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 15:27:17 GMT

Hi (again):

Do you mean this?

#!/bin/sh
list1="123"
list2="456"
list3="789"
elements="${list1} ${list2} ${list3}"
for i in ${elements}
do
echo ${i}
done

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: for loop question

Dennis Handly — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 18:02:21 GMT

>I have a huge number of elements

You could create an array if there aren't more than 1023 elements:
set -A elements '123' '456' '789'

>for i in $elements ....

Replace by:
for i in "${elements[@]}"; do

Re: for loop question

Steven Schweda — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 23:45:42 GMT

> but in a script all hell breaks loose.

> this is the bit that goes wrong.

Have you considered the possible advantages
of explaining what you're actually doing, and
what actually goes wrong when you do it?

Re: for loop question

hpuxrocks — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 02:22:53 GMT

lol ... ahh nothing like getting on the band wagon for a good old tar and feathering. I guess Ill just have to be more explicit next time...but fab answers.

Ok so "all hell breaks loose" was at tabd melodramatic. The new chastized me now says:

My previous efforts hitherto produced an array of results ranging from $i being equal to each entry in the group of elements or $i being equal to the entire string. These observations were when I assigned the groups to an array, albeit , incorrectly.

I see from the above how to correctly assign grouped elements to a variable to be used in the for loop.

Thks for all your comments and help.

Re: for loop question

hpuxrocks — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 02:23:51 GMT

thks to all