Shell Programming and Scripting

I know that directly we can assign a string to a variable but is there any other way to declare a variable as string type. I am using tcsh shell where I am using a function which would return a value of string type but when I am using return keyword , it is returning only integer value.pls help.

Hi.

Functions only "return" integers ("return codes") (and those are only represented in 8-bits). And return is not a variable.

Variables aren't "typed". They all contain strings. You can notionally alter this behaviour using typeset, but that would only affect what you could assign to that variable, or how it is represented.

It's common to assign the "return string" to a variable within the function before the function terminates.

I never use C-shell. so please post the "function" so we can have a look

suppose my function name is func1
func1()
{
x="maitree"
return $x
}
y=func1

If you want to get the string as a return type mostly you can use as like..

Code:

func1()
{
x="Hello"
echo "$x"
}
y=`func1`
echo $y

Here no need to return the string
Believe some better way u could find out..