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Hi geekmaster,
Thank you for the hints. I am totally new at shell programming so am learning quite a bit from this. Thank you.
Does "${ST%?}" work on the K3? A lot of other similar string processing that works on newer kindles does not work on the K3.
>>>Yes. It works well.
[[ $K -eq 14 ]]&& ST="$(echo ${ST%?})" && continue # del
For example, where I used ${ST:$K:1} on newer kindles I had to change to the older "echo|cut" for the K3 in this script. I will test the "%?" thing you did later when I get time...
[[ $K -le 52 ]]&& L="$(echo \"$KM\"|cut -b$K-$K)"
Question: Why are you using Aa for Enter?
# [[ $K -eq 28 ]]&& break # enter
[[ $K -eq 190 ]]&& break # use Aa for enter
>>> If I used enter, then the Kindle home screen actually does a search of what I typed, and sometimes an annoying dialog box comes up. I find that Aa is more graceful.
The spacebar (keycode 57) worked for me:
[[ $K -eq 57 ]]&& L=" " # space
I think that this is eating your space:
ST="$(echo $ST$L)"
When passing parameters that may contain spaces, you should wrap them in quotes like this:
ST="$(echo \"$ST$L\")"
In this case, the escaped quotes become part of the echo command, and they protect any trailing space that is contained in the expansion of $L.
However in this particular case, why bother with an external command? Just do this instead:
ST="$ST$L"
>>> Got it. I did not know you can do this.
Best Regards,
James
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