Re: [hylafax-users] FaxDispatch logic help

[Chris Taylor <chris.taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jason Staudenmayer wrote:
> I've been search for some examples but I'm not finding many.
> I'm finally setting up my dispatch script and so far I'm just using a case for SENDER. What I'd like to do is also route other faxes by CIDNUMBER.
> I just want to make sure that no faxes are lost or double emails are send. Below is what I have so far:
>
> case $SENDER in
>
> *305*243*5662*) SENDTO="health@xxxxxxxxxxxxx";;
>
> *) SENDTO=faxin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx;;
>
>
> esac
>
> case $CIDNUMBER in
>
> *215*368*1960*) SENDTO="rigan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";;
>
> *) SENDTO=faxin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx;;
>
> esac
>
> My question is do I only need the catch-all in the last case or should each case have it?
>
> I think I might feel a bit more comfortable with if-then but I'm not sure if that would be easier to maintain and I have seen no examples on the web.
>
> Jason
> ..·><((((º>

Every different case needs the *) entry.
Case statements are basically a looped if then.. You may have come 
across them as switch statements in java (i think).

Just remember to not do the catchall more than once per case.

Your syntax looks fine to me.

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