Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!alberta!edm!steve
From: steve@edm.UUCP (Stephen Samuel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: csh oddity
Summary: the digit does it...
Keywords: csh variables substitution
Message-ID: <218@edm.UUCP>
Date: 21 Jan 88 04:44:50 GMT
References: <826@murphy.UUCP> <590@devon.UUCP>
Organization: Unexsys Systems Inc., Edmonton,AB.
Lines: 27

In article <590@devon.UUCP>, paul@devon.UUCP writes:
| In article <826@murphy.UUCP> dcornutt@murphy.UUCP (Dave Cornutt) writes:
| +----------
| | 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
(bloody include counter.....)

It seems to be something with having the '1' inside the braces... The one fix
(workaround) I have is to take the qy1z out of the braces and trail it with
a null ('') string (delimits the end of the name.):
.......
% set qy1z=$qy1z''_123
% echo $qy1z
qwert_123

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