Hi, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > first I guess this isn't the right place, but well, the damage is done :)
Maybe we should move to [email protected] if we discuss on. :)) Markhazy wrote: > > the desired effect > > user@user:-$ cdiv -1 5 6 0 > > -0.16667 + j0.8333 > > user@user:-$ echo $AC > > -0.16667 > > user@user:-$ echo $ACIM > > 0.8333 Parent environment is out of reach. At least by tradition. Shell functions can set their caller's variables. How about this one decoding the output line of cdiv: my_cdiv () { read AC plus_dummy ACIM <<EOT $(cdiv "$@") EOT # Remove the leading "j" from the imaginary output ACIM=$(echo "$ACIM" | sed -e 's/^j//') } You'd write the function into a script file and at intialization time execute it inline (thus the leading '.') in the dialog shell: . my_cdiv_initializer.sh Not having "cdiv", i tested with $(echo "$@") instead, and gave the desired cdiv result as argument $ my_cdiv "-0.16667 + j0.8333" $ echo $AC -0.16667 $ echo $ACIM 0.8333 This depends much on the output format of cdiv being uniform. Abbreviated output like j0.8333 or -0.16667 would need more brains inside the shell function. Have a nice day :) Thomas
