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Old 06-19-2012
set variable with square brackets in c shell!
Hi Guys,
I want to set a variable which happend to have square brackets in them. I tried multiple ways that is by escaping it with quotes (both single and double ) but it didn't help.
All I want is:
Code:
set x = slicearray.slice\[0\].post

My failed attempts were:
Code:
set x = "slicearray.slice\[0\].post"
set x = slicearray.slice\'['0\']'.post
set x = slicearray.slice\"["0\"]".po

Thanks in advance!
Last edited by Franklin52; 06-20-2012 at 03:37 AM.. Reason: fixed code tags
# 2  
Old 06-19-2012
Hi.

Did you try:
Code:
set x = 'slicearray.slice\[0\].post'

cheers, drl
# 3  
Old 06-20-2012
Yes but it didn't work.
when I try single quotes and do echo $x it says:
echo : No match.
The problem is the square brackets because when I remove the square brackets it works just fine.
# 4  
Old 06-20-2012
Hi.

This is my result:
Code:
% set x = 'slicearray.slice\[0\].post'
% echo "x = $x"
x = slicearray.slice\[0\].post

If you need to do something without the double quotes:
Code:
% set nonomatch
% echo $x
slicearray.slice\[0\].post

cheers, drl
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