Csh question

Wayne Mesard mesard at bbn.com
Thu Jul 21 03:07:01 AEST 1988


>From article <8807191241.AA18881 at decwrl.dec.com>, by ellis at ultra.dec.com (David Ellis):
> Is there any way to get the value of a variable whose name is the value of
> another variable?
> 
> e.g. if we've done set x=a and set a=3, is there any simple csh expression
> in terms of x that yields the value of a (3)?

How 'bout:

	eval echo \$$x

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