Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello,

I have a text file (say, declarevars.txt) that contains multiple lines that are essentially meant to be variable declarations:

Code:

set arr1 = (var1a var1b var1c)
set arr2 = (var2a var2b var2c)
.
.
.

I want to be able to read this text file within a csh (sorry) script and have that script treat these lines as if they are part of the script. That is, after reading the text file, if I write

Code:

echo $arr1

within the script, it would print out

Code:

var1a var1b var1c

My reason for doing this instead of setting the variables within the script itself is more for neatness and convenience. I would be using a lot of different scripts doing different things but each would be using these same variables and I didn't want the first 50 lines of each script to always be variable declarations.

Based on what I've found from forums, I have tried the following

Code:

`cat declarevars.txt'

and

Code:

foreach line ("`cat declarevars.txt`")
end

However, none of these seem to work. I am hoping that someone can help me with this question. Thank you very much!

If it is in csh syntax you can include it with the source command

Code:

# for safety turn wildcard globbing off
set noglob
source declarevars.txt
unset noglob

Thank you very much, MadeInGermany! It works now.