csh question

[Barry Evans]

Someone posted an article stating they had a problem with the following
csh script, and someone else posted a followup stating there
was an incorrect number of endif's.  Not so.  Removing one of the
endif's is a hack, which just happens to work.  I'm convinced that 
there is a bug in Csh, and that the logic in the script is correct.
Reason being, if you include a whitespace after the if's, then the
following script works as it is supposed to.  I haven't seen anything in the
documentation saying that you must include  white-spaces though.  Also,
in expressions, you must include spaces before and after the
conditions, which the documentation doesn't mention either, but for these
you will get error messages.

    #! /bin/csh				{
    set x=1				    x=1;
    if($x == 1) then			    if(x == 1){
	    set y=2			        y=2;
    else				    }else{
	    if($y == 2) then		        if(y == 2){
		    echo "line 1"		    printf("line 1");
	    else			        }else{
		    echo "line 2"		    printf("line 2");
	    endif			        }
	    echo "shouldn't get here"	    printf("shouldn't get here");
    endif				    }
    echo "finished"			printf("finished");
					}

-barry
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