Re: Yes/No -> Si/No / ixnay / better input routine

From: Michele Andreoli (m.andreoli@tin.it)
Date: Mon Jun 25 2001 - 15:37:16 CEST


On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 03:56:35PM -0400, Alfie Costa nicely wrote:

> Better to prevent bad input. Given a (y/n) prompt, if the user types 'j',
>the
> computer should just beep, or if there was no sound, the screen could make a
> face. The script would accept only yYnN or <Enter>. Some util like MsDos'
> 'CHOICE' or BASIC's 'INKEY$' would be needed though.
>
> Difficult pseudocode like this:
>
> :start
> SomeStringInputRoutine "Is it Yes or is it No?" $A
> if ucase(left(1,$A)) = "Y" goto end
> if ucase(left(1,$A)) = "N" goto end
> goto start
> :end
>

This requires a lot of changes in any script, because translation do
not apply to the code itself.

Michele

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