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Subject: more on csh quirks
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Date: Wed, 10-Apr-85 08:38:38 EST
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set foo = $<

if the user types "foo bar" then 

if($foo == "something") etc..

will die with an "expression syntax" because of the space.  
I thought, perhaps, that if the shell parsed the "foo" and
"bar" into two separate tokens, I should be able to access
$foo[0] and $foo[1] and get "foo" and "bar" respectively.
This also is not the case. 

echo $foo[0]
gives:
foo bar

AAAAARRRRRGGGGGGv


						Dan Heller (aka Frank)
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