I know that the Korn shell isn't exactly the most common language for web scripting ;-) .... but if you've got a load of Korn shell scripts and a heap of Korn shell experts ... why not?
"How would you do it" I was asked yesterday and I put together a tiny demo to show some of the first principles. You can run the example
here and see all of my source code
here.
Just to note - the code is very basic as a first demo, but never the less I have used
tr to clean up the user's input so that anything other than input digits are washed out of the data entry box.
(written 2007-09-25)
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