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From: andy@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Andy Clews)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Cshell question: taking wordlists as a single string
Message-ID: <3269@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
Date: 16 Aug 90 13:00:47 GMT
References: <3251@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
Organization: University of Sussex
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In article <3251@syma.sussex.ac.uk>, I wrote:
> 
> Basically, then, can Cshell cope with word-lists as single arguments, or
> must I write a C program to do the job (or try sh or ksh?)
>

The solution was staring me in the face and I didn't see it until Jay Plett
sent me this solution:

% xxx "a b c" d e f
a b c
d
e
f
% cat xxx
#! /bin/csh -f

while ( $#argv )
	echo $1
	shift
end



So you must use a while loop rather than a foreach loop. So obvious now
I look at it. *sigh*

Thanks to Jay for the enlightenment.


-- 
Andy Clews, Computing Service, Univ. of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QN, England
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