Anyone know how I can have a user enter a string and have that string removed from a variable list?

ie

list="One Two Three"
echo "Please enter string?"
read $string

...then get that string and remove it from the list someone..I was thinking using cut but I'm not sure. Please advise. Thanks.

Any suggestions?

Hello Mike,

first : "read $string" is wrong better you take "read string"

second : the result from read command is not insert in "list". It is a seperate variable.

You can delete it by "$string=""". Where is the problem ?

Greetings from Germany
Peter F.

Hi,

I want to have the user enter a string and have that string matched up against another variable in the script and 'removed'. Ie.

If the user enters 'Run' then it will match it against another variable in the script called Transporation="Walk Run Jog"

The new value of Transportation would be "Walk Jog"

Please advise. THanks in advance. Would 'awk' do the trick? not sure since I'm new at this.

list="One Two Three"
echo "Please enter string?"
read string
new_string=""
for next in `echo $list | awk '{ for(i = 1; i <= NF; ++i) print $i}'`
do
if [ ! "$next" = "$string" ]; then
new_string=`echo $new_string $next`
fi
done
echo $new_string

Hi..

I can't seem to get that character at the end of line 5? I tried double quotes instead but not working. I'm using korn shell. Any suggestions?

That character is a backtick (`). On a UK keyboard at least, it is underneath the escape key, above tab. Commands between 2 backticks are substituted for their equivalent output and substituted into the current command. You could also use $(command).

[q]for next in `echo $list | awk '{ for(i = 1; i <= NF; ++i) print $i}'`[\q]

The line above is saying to echo the value of list, pipe this value into awk and then loop through each field passed into awk, print it out an dthen substitute the final value into the current command, i.e.

for next in outputFromEchoAwkCommand
do
...


A bit pointless really because this is effectively the same as...

for next in $list
do
...


A simpler example would be...

list="a b c d e f g h"
echo "Enter value: \c"; read value
for item in $list
do
[ $value != $item ] && newList="$newList $item"
done
list=$newList; echo $list

Or even...

list="a b c d e f g h"
echo "Enter value: \c"; read value
list=$(echo "$list" | sed "s/${value} \{1,\}//g"); echo $list

HTH