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From: epames@eos.ericsson.se (Michael Salmon)
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Subject: Re: using set in a csh script
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Date: 25 Oct 90 07:33:25 GMT
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In article <21752@dime.cs.umass.edu> martha@cs.umass.edu (Martha S. DasSarma) writes:
>
>	I am trying to do set a variable that includes spaces, but the
>	set deletes them.
>	I type:
>
>	$ set t="Mon   5"
>	$ echo $t
>	$ Mon 5
>
>	What happens is that the set deletes the extra spaces I put 
>	in the set.
>	How could I preserve the spaces?

Set hasn't deleted the spaces, they were deleted in the parsing of echo, just as if
you typed $ echo Mon   5. Try $ echo "$t".

Regards
   Michael Salmon