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From: kai@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: CSH Help -- I don't get it ...
Message-ID: <43200028@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu>
Date: 8 Aug 88 00:12:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu!kai    Aug  7 19:12:00 1988


>#!/bin/csh
>set x=stuff_and_more
>echo try one:
>if "$x" =~ "stuff*" echo yes
>
>echo try two:
>alias x 'if "$x" =~ "stuff*" echo yes'
>x
>
>echo try three:
>alias x 'if "$x" =~ "stuff"* echo yes'
>x

Instead, try:

	#!/bin/csh -f
	set x = "stuff_and_more"
	echo "try one:"
	if ( "$x" =~ stuff* ) echo yes
	
	echo "try two:"
	alias x 'if ( "$x" =~ stuff* ) echo yes'
	x


I didn't know C-shell's if command worked at all without parens.

Your problem was the double quotes.  Pattern matching in C shell doesn't work
when the *pattern* is surrounded with double quotes.

Patrick Wolfe  (pwolfe@kai.com,  kailand!pwolfe)