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From: jpn@teddy.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards,net.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: Re: C-Shell weirdness
Message-ID: <2365@teddy.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 28-Mar-86 06:31:07 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 28 06:31:07 1986
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Reply-To: jpn@teddy.UUCP (John P. Nelson)
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>> set hosed
>> echo $#hosed
>> 
>> THEN you will get 0.
>
>Small problem: on my system (Ultrix 32m 1.1) the above gives 1, not 0.

Uh, all csh variables (except argv) will always have ONE element unless you
used the set notation when setting their value.  The way to create a variable
with zero elements is:

set hosed = ()