martha@cs.umass.edu (Martha S. DasSarma) (10/25/90)
I am trying to do set a variable that includes spaces, but the set deletes them. I type: $ set t="Mon 5" $ echo $t $ Mon 5 What happens is that the set deletes the extra spaces I put in the set. How could I preserve the spaces? Any help will be appreciated. Thanks, Martha DasSarma ------ Martha DasSarma, Research Computing Facility, COINS, UMass/Amherst internet: martha@cs.umass.edu
jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) (10/25/90)
In article <21752@dime.cs.umass.edu>, martha@cs.umass.edu (Martha S. DasSarma) writes: |> What happens is that the set deletes the extra spaces I put |> in the set. Wrong. The spaces are not deleted when you do the set, they are deleted when you do the echo, since the echo command echoes each of its arguments, separating each of them by one space. % set t="Mon 5" % echo $t Mon 5 % echo "$t" Mon 5 -- Jonathan Kamens USnail: MIT Project Athena 11 Ashford Terrace jik@Athena.MIT.EDU Allston, MA 02134 Office: 617-253-8085 Home: 617-782-0710
epames@eos.ericsson.se (Michael Salmon) (10/25/90)
In article <21752@dime.cs.umass.edu> martha@cs.umass.edu (Martha S. DasSarma) writes: > > I am trying to do set a variable that includes spaces, but the > set deletes them. > I type: > > $ set t="Mon 5" > $ echo $t > $ Mon 5 > > What happens is that the set deletes the extra spaces I put > in the set. > How could I preserve the spaces? Set hasn't deleted the spaces, they were deleted in the parsing of echo, just as if you typed $ echo Mon 5. Try $ echo "$t". Regards Michael Salmon
kole@convex.com (John P. Kole) (10/26/90)
>> $ set t="Mon 5" >> $ echo $t >> $ Mon 5 >> You might try this: % set t="Mon 5" % echo $t:q % Mon 5