[comp.lang.perl] Configure on aix

jsweedle@einstein.intel.com (Jonathan Sweedler) (11/06/90)

Configure does not run on our latest (and greatest :-) version of aix
that we have here.  The problem is with null strings inside case statements. 
For example, if I execute the following shell script under aix, I 
get "Didn't work.":

case "" in
"") echo Worked.
;;
*) echo "Didn't work."
;;
esac

Has anyone else come across this problem and solved it already?

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brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) (11/06/90)

In article <814@inews.intel.com> jsweedle@einstein.intel.com (Jonathan Sweedler) writes:
> case "" in
> "") echo Worked.
  [ isn't executed ]

Perhaps testing x"" against x"" is safer.

---Dan