Re: multiple spaces in bash strings. [SOLVED]

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Hi.

home user wrote:

> Here's the real code fragment:
> # 220 lines of code above here constructs string variables
> # line1, line2, line3, begchars, and endchars.
> line1="${begchars}${line1}"
> line2="${begchars}   ${line2}"
> line3="${begchars}   ${line3}"
> echo "before if, endchars = "${endchars}"."

Beware: word splitting will be done here when expanding ${endchars}
because the " before it closes the first "

You should quote the inner ":

  echo "before if, endchars = \"${endchars}\"."

> if ! [ -z $endchars ]; then

Beware: this will raise an error: [: ...: binary operator expected
if endchars contains spaces.

Quote $endchars:

  if ! [ -z "$endchars" ]; then

>     echo "adding closing tags."
>     line1="${line1}${endchars}"
>     line2="${line2}   ${endchars}"
>     line3="${line3}   ${endchars}"
> fi
> echo "line1="${line1}"."

Same remark than above for endchars.
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