'Combining 2 while loops together'

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

I need help with 'combining 2 while loops' together.
The 1st while loop reads an input and checks to see if the input is a blank.
But at the same time, I want to check if the input (if its not blank) is a number or a word. As I am using the case, I cannot use any if loops.

Really appreciate anyone who can help me. Thank you very much.

#!/bin/bash

read Name in
while [ -z "${Name}" ] #Ensure that there are no blank inputs
do
echo "You cannot input a blank name. Enter a valid name"
read Name
done

read Check in
while [ `echo $Check | grep "[^A-Z]"` ] #Check that user types in character from A-Z only
do
echo "Invalid input. Please enter characters from A-Z";
read Check;
done

2

What should it do if its a number or word? That affects how one might check and where.

Also, why do you do this:

read Something in

That tries to read into two variables, 'Something' and 'in', but 'in' never gets used. You can leave it off, the statement will work without it.

Also, please use code tags for code. Quote my post to see how.

3

Sorry, I'm new to this forum. Will use the code tag in future.

The input should be a word, not a number. If the input is a number, it will keep looping and echoing an invalid statement until the input is a word.
The problem I am facing is, the first loop is working, I cannot input a blank, but I can still input numbers.

I am thinking of something like this

read Name
while [ -z "${Name}" |`echo $Name | grep  "[^A-Z]"`]
do
echo "You cannot input a blank or numeric name."
read Name
done

Yes, and I realised that the 'in' does not affect anything. Will remove it.