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[Daniel.]

>You are right. I am sorry, there are indeed these two ways:
>   let REPLIEDFLAF=...
>and
>   REPLIEDFLAG=$((...))
>
>In both cases there must be no spaces around the "=".
>I actually didn't realize "let" was part of the syntax,
>probably because I didn't even know "let".
>I just tried your example (with my own variables) and it
>gave me an error.

Maybe you left out the double quotes? If they're omitted, then there 
do indeed have to be no spaces around the "=" as you say. Or maybe 
we're just using different versions of bash.
-Daniel.
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