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From: jmacdon@cg-atla.agfa.com (Jeff MacDonald)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: recursive variable substitution in csh
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Date: 15 Aug 90 21:49:37 GMT
Reply-To: jmacdon@cg-atla.UUCP (Jeff MacDonald)
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In the C-shell, how does one evaluate a variable which contains the
name of a variable in order to get the value of the variable
contained by the variable that one is evaluating?

To wit:

set x = 'ABC'
set y = '$x'
set z =      # some function of y such that $z == "ABC"


Don't ask how I got into this predicament, it's not funny!
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