Easiest improvement is to do it in perl
my @months = qw(
January February March April May June
July August September October November December
);
if( grep /$whatsthemonth/, @months ) {
}
(I can think of lots of other ways to encode it, but that one meets the
stated aim.
--Don Ellis
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Scott Granneman <[email protected]>wrote:
>
> is there a shorter way to do this:
>
> if [ $whatsthemonth = January -o $whatsthemonth = February -o
> $whatsthemonth = March -o $whatsthemonth = April -o $whatsthemonth =
> May -o $whatsthemonth = June -o $whatsthemonth = July -o
> $whatsthemonth = August -o $whatsthemonth = September -o
> $whatsthemonth = October -o $whatsthemonth = November -o
> $whatsthemonth = December ]
>
> than what i did?
>
> tks!
>
> scott
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