case statement needs fixing

Ray Parrish crp at cmc.net
Fri Nov 20 07:23:22 UTC 2009


Hello,

I have the following code

     while read ThisLine; do
           case "$ThisLine" in
                "<loc>"*)
                         URLs="$URLs $ThisLine";;
           esac
     done < "$MapName"
echo "URLs $URLs"

$MapName is assigned the name of a google site map file. I've tried 
several variations to match the 
<loc>http://www.somesite.com/index.html</loc> lines in the file so I can 
concatenate them into one long string.

Still echo keeps dumping an empty string back at me, so I'm not sure 
what I am doing wrong with this one.

Does anyone know why this is not working?

Thanks, Ray Parrish

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