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From: west@sdcsla.UUCP (Larry West)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: more on csh quirks
Message-ID: <834@sdcsla.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 13-Apr-85 02:33:10 EST
Article-I.D.: sdcsla.834
Posted: Sat Apr 13 02:33:10 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 14-Apr-85 03:47:48 EST
References: <9845@brl-tgr.ARPA>
Reply-To: west@sdcsla.UUCP (Larry West)
Organization: UC San Diego: Institute for Cognitive Science
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Summary: Hardly worth calling a quirk, Captain

In article <9845@brl-tgr.ARPA> argv@ucb-vax.ARPA writes:
>
>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. 

All you need to do is:
	set foo = $<
	set foo = ( $foo )
the latter expands the string into separate words.

For comparisions of strings, try:
	if ( "X$foo" == "Xsomething" ) et cetera...

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Larry West			Institute for Cognitive Science
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