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Old 03-07-2011
foreach with exact string

Hello,
I have the following foreach loop in a csh script:

foreach f ( example good example)
cat $n | grep $f
END

And I would like to grep "example" and "good example", the problem is that when I add " to the foreach loop it doesn't work well and looks for good and then example. How can I force foreach to look for use the complete string?

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Old 03-08-2011
Code:
foreach f ( example "good example")
   cat $n | grep "$f"

Always quote your strings if you have spaces inside ...
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Old 03-08-2011
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