recursive variable substitution in csh

[Tom Christiansen]

In article <9045 at cg-atla.agfa.com> jmacdon at cg-atla.UUCP (Jeff MacDonald) writes:
>In the C-shell, how does one evaluate a variable which contains the
>name of a variable in order to get the value of the variable
>contained by the variable that one is evaluating?
>
>set x = 'ABC'
>set y = '$x'
>set z =      # some function of y such that $z == "ABC"

% eval set z = "$y"
% echo $z
% ABC

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