issue with pattern matching

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

i have 2 strings with values below which are read from a file

1 ---> end
2 ---> string(1)newline="\n";

which need to be compared inside an if block as below

if [ ${LAST_1_LINE} == "end" -a ${LAST_2_LINE} == "string\(\1\)newline\=\"\\n\"\;" ]
then
  echo "pattern match"
fi

but the above code is not working

2

Hi, use strong quoting on the string with the funny characters and weak quoting for the variable references..

if [ "$LAST_1_LINE" = end ] && [ "$LAST_2_LINE" = 'string(1)newline="\n";' ]; then