Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!cbmvax!vu-vlsi!devon!paul
From: paul@devon.UUCP (Paul Sutcliffe Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: csh oddity
Summary: not just 4.{23}, either
Keywords: csh variables substitution
Message-ID: <590@devon.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jan 88 17:09:14 GMT
References: <826@murphy.UUCP>
Reply-To: paul@devon.UUCP (Paul Sutcliffe Jr.)
Organization: Devon Computer Services, Lancaster, PA
Lines: 31

In article <826@murphy.UUCP> dcornutt@murphy.UUCP (Dave Cornutt) writes:
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| I have discovered something peculiar about csh variable substitution.  Is
| this a bug or am I doing something wrong?  Watch this:
| 
| % set xy1z=qwert
| % echo $xy1z
| qwert
| % set xy1z=${xy1z}_123
| Variable syntax.
| % echo $xy1z
| qwert
| 
| The OS involved here is UTX/32, rev 2.0, which is BSD4.3 based.  However,
| I have gotten the same results on Sun 3.2, which is 4.2-based, so I think
| it's generic to csh.  Any hints?
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I tried this same thing on the csh on Microsoft Xenix 3.0 (Xenix/68000 on
a Tandy 16), and got the same results.

Not having source, I cannot suggest what is causing this (or offer a
fix), but I thought I mention this for those who can.

- paul

-- 
Paul Sutcliffe, Jr.

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