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From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
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Subject: Re: tcsh script: quote and spaces problems
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In the last episode (Aug 01), Rob Lahaye said:
> Another odd behaviour occurs when I say:
> 
>   set foo="a    b            c"
> 
> which tcsh reduces to "a b c", despite the quotes.

This works for me (-CURRENT).

$ tcsh
dan: {3001} set foo="a    b            c"
dan: {3002} set | grep foo
_       set foo="a    b            c"
foo     a    b            c
dan: {3003} echo "$foo"
a    b            c
dan: {3004} 
 
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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com