[Orca-users] orca 0.27 make error on Solaris 9

David Devault DDevault at Elance.com
Mon Aug 30 17:14:40 PDT 2004


Blair Zajac wrote:

>No, I'm not saying that.  I just put the quotes in my previous email to 
>show that $a was set to two space characters.

Blair, 

Thats good cause I noticed some weird behavior with testing "" and the escaped "\"\""

Failed test:
test for ""            which tested against an empty value - right?

Successful test:
test for  "\"\""       which tested "" literaly


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sh-2.05# a="\"\""
sh-2.05# echo $a
""
sh-2.05# if test "`echo $a`" != "";then echo "not eq to \"\" "; fi 
not eq to "" 
sh-2.05# if test "`echo $a`" != "\"\"";then echo "not eq to \"\" "; fi
sh-2.05#
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