[ale] Baffled on doing CASE statement with a Variable list of values

[Neal Rhodes]

Perhaps I didn't make it clear enough.   Yes, the first approach of hard
coding case values works. 

All the other approaches of trying to put the values in a variable do
not work. 


On Mon, 2015-08-03 at 12:33 -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:
> This works:
> 
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> 
> 
> FRED='one'
> 
> 
> case $FRED in
>   one|two|pie) echo "got ${FRED}"; ;;
>   *) echo "crud"; ;;
> esac
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2015-08-03 at 12:03 -0400, Neal Rhodes wrote:
> > 
> > Exactly how does not assign a list of values separated by pipe to
> > use that variable later on in a script and make a CASE statement
> > happy? 
> > The script below shows a variety of attempts. 
> > 
> > Ultimately, we're aiming to grab the list from a file, eg
> > "LIST="`cat allow.list`"
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >         REMOTE_ADDR=one
> >         
> >         case $REMOTE_ADDR in
> >                 one|two|three) echo "I like $REMOTE_ADDR" ;;    #
> >         Picks this one.
> >                 *) echo "I do NOT like $REMOTE_ADDR" ;;
> >         esac
> >         
> >         LIST="one|two|three"
> >         case $REMOTE_ADDR in
> >                 $LIST) echo "But now I like $REMOTE_ADDR" ;;
> >                 *) echo "But now I do NOT like $REMOTE_ADDR" ;; #
> >         Picks this one.
> >         esac
> >         
> >         case $REMOTE_ADDR in
> >                 "$LIST") echo "And I like $REMOTE_ADDR" ;;
> >                 *) echo "And I do NOT like $REMOTE_ADDR" ;;     #
> >         Picks this one.
> >         esac
> >         
> >         LIST="one"
> >         case $REMOTE_ADDR in
> >                 "$LIST") echo "Yet I like $REMOTE_ADDR" ;;      #
> >         Picks this one.
> >                 *) echo "Yet I do NOT like $REMOTE_ADDR" ;;
> >         esac
> >         
> >         LIST="one\|two\|three"
> >         case $REMOTE_ADDR in
> >                 $LIST) echo "However now I like $REMOTE_ADDR" ;;
> >                 *) echo "However now I do NOT like $REMOTE_ADDR" ;;
> >         # Picks this one.
> >         esac
> > 
> > 
> > 
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