hi, im trying to compare two variables in csh to put in an if statement, eg:

set a = $firstnum
set b = $secondnum
if ($a -ge $b) echo $a

But I get an error ("if: Expression syntax"). How can I make csh see my variables as integers?

thanks in advance!

Your code have the syntactical errors

if [ $a -ge $b ]
then
echo $a
fi


Enjoy....
Anji

im using csh, this has always been the form of if that i have been using...

if ($a > $b) echo $a

thanks ranjithpr! it works. it was my first instinct to do that but the "-gt" was what the man pages indicate. i should have tried that one.

if ( $a -ge $b) then
echo $a
endif