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Hi, I have to find out whether the last character of a string is a "/" or not. I have to accept a path from the stdin and find out whether it has a "/" in the end or not. If not, then append "/" to the end of the string. The logic runs thus: echo "type the path of the file" read dat_path [find out the last character of the string] [If the last character of the string is not "/" then append a "/" to the end of the string] This is what I want the program to do. I am having trouble with finding the last character of the string. Any ideas? -Anukta

Name: jimbo
Date: October 9, 2002 at 04:04:42 Pacific

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#! /bin/ksh print "Enter a path: \c" read PATH case "$PATH" in */) echo "$PATH" ;; *) echo "${PATH}/" ;; esac -jim

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Thanks, that works !!! -Anukta

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