Read Command

balakrishnay · 01-30-2010, 04:14 AM

Hi,

read command will consider as one word irrespective of spaces in the word for ex :-

test case will be considered as one word incase if you assign this to one variable . But as per my requirement i want distribute the words like test and another word as case. How to do this can you any one help me out in doing this .

Regards

Bala

catkin · 01-30-2010, 04:41 AM

I don't understand your question.

Which language are you asking about?

If shellscript, then in bash the read command allows assigning words from a line to several variables; all the remaining part of the line goes in the last variable:

Code:

c:~$ read var1 var2 var3
a b c d e f
c:~$ echo $var1
a
c:~$ echo $var2
b
c:~$ echo $var3
c d e f