On 5/28/08, Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith at sun.com> wrote:
> Vikash Tulsiyan wrote:
> > Thanks Alan. Your link was very helpful.
> > To be more specific Following code snippet:
> > #!/bin/ksh -p
> > sum ()
> > {
> > var=$"$1"
> > echo "$var"
> > }
> > sum xyz
> >
> > gives an output $xyz on solaris machine while on opensolaris box it gives
> output as xyz.
> > This is causing my application to crash on opensolaris. Is this a known
> issue? Are their other similar incompatibilities or differences between the
> two??
>
> This is a question best asked of the ksh93 project.
>
$"" is not a valid syntax in ksh88 or Sun's ksh88. You have to use
'$'"" instead.
ksh93 uses $"text" literals to replace 'text' with the value from a
message catalog if LC_MESSAGES is not C or POSIX.
Irek
