case statement needs fixing

[Ray Parrish]

Ray Parrish wrote:
> 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
>   
Hello again,

I figured it out, here is the corrected code -

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

I had to escape the <> symbols.

Later, Ray Parrish

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