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  1. POBash Script Leet Text Convertor: How to get array to recognize spaces
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    copied!<p>The issue with the code below is that I can not seem to get the array to recognize when the text has spaces in it or not. I figured adding the ' ' value in the array would handle this, but I was wrong. I haven't found much luck from searches about how to get an array to recognize spaces in bash scripting.</p> <pre><code>#!/bin/bash if [ "$1" == "-e" ]; then # if the cli argument is -e OPT="encrypt"; # set the option to encrypt elif [ "$1" == "-d" ]; then # if the cli argument is -d OPT="decrypt"; # set the option to decrypt else # else show the proper usage echo "Usage - Encrypt text: ./l33t.sh -e text"; echo "Usage - Decrypt text: ./l33t.sh -d text"; exit; fi #creating an array for leet text and plain text declare -a LEET=('ɐ' 'ß' '©' 'Ð' '€' 'ƒ' '&amp;' '#' 'I' '¿' 'X' '£' 'M' '?' 'ø' 'p' 'O' 'Я' '§' '†' 'µ' '^' 'W' '×' '¥' 'z' '1' '2' '3' '4' '5' '6' '7' '8' '9' '0' ' '); declare -a ENG=('a' 'b' 'c' 'd' 'e' 'f' 'g' 'h' 'i' 'j' 'k' 'l' 'm' 'n' 'o' 'p' 'q' 'r' 's' 't' 'u' 'v' 'w' 'x' 'y' 'z' '1' '2' '3' '4' '5' '6' '7' '8' '9' '0' ' '); echo -n "Please enter a string to $OPT: "; # asking for user input read INPUT; # grab the input while read letter; # for each character in the input (check the grep near done) do for i in {0..37} # for each item in the array do if [ "$OPT" == "encrypt" ]; then # if the option is set to encrypt FIND=${ENG[$i]}; # the array to look through is the plain array elif [ "$OPT" == "decrypt" ]; then # else the array to look through is the leet text array FIND=${LEET[$i]}; fi if [ "$OPT" == "encrypt" ]; then # if the option is set to encrypt if [ "$FIND" == "$letter" ]; then # if our character is in the plain array ENCRYPTED+=${LEET[$i]}; # Add to Encrypted that values leet transformation fi elif [ "$OPT" == "decrypt" ]; then # else do the same thing except with oposite arrays if [ "$FIND" == "$letter" ]; then ENCRYPTED+=${ENG[$i]}; fi fi done done &lt; &lt;(grep -o . &lt;&lt;&lt; $INPUT) echo $ENCRYPTED; # echo the result </code></pre>
 

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