more on csh quirks
argv at ucb-vax.ARPA
argv at ucb-vax.ARPA
Wed Apr 10 23:38:38 AEST 1985
set foo = $<
if the user types "foo bar" then
if($foo == "something") etc..
will die with an "expression syntax" because of the space.
I thought, perhaps, that if the shell parsed the "foo" and
"bar" into two separate tokens, I should be able to access
$foo[0] and $foo[1] and get "foo" and "bar" respectively.
This also is not the case.
echo $foo[0]
gives:
foo bar
AAAAARRRRRGGGGGGv
Dan Heller (aka Frank)
ucbvax!ucscc!argv {ihnp4,sun,cbosgd,decwrl}!qubix!ucscc!argv
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