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From: chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards,net.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: C-Shell weirdness (count of words in a variable)
Message-ID: <566@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 27-Mar-86 21:30:07 EST
Article-I.D.: umcp-cs.566
Posted: Thu Mar 27 21:30:07 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 20-Apr-86 13:13:19 EST
References: <676@nbires.UUCP> <2021@hao.UUCP> <678@nbires.UUCP> <2024@hao.UUCP>
Reply-To: chris@maryland.UUCP (Chris Torek)
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Organization: U of Maryland, Computer Science Dept., College Park, MD
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In article <2024@hao.UUCP> woods@hao.UUCP writes:

>It seems that $#var is either an error or a positive integer.

Not so:

	% set foo
	% echo $#foo
	1
	% set foo=()
	% echo $#foo
	0
	%
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