zero-trip foreach loops

[David I. Berg]

In article <2494 at utai.UUCP>, lamy at utai.UUCP (Jean-Francois Lamy) writes:
> 
> Is there an easy way to have csh foreach loops that don't complain if the
> pattern given does not match any file...., 
> 

You might try:

touch dummy.tfm
foreach font (*.tfm)
    if $font = "dummy.dfm" continue
    set fontname = `basename $font .tfm`
    foreach size ($fontname.*pxl)
    ...
    end
end
rm dummy.tfm

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David I. Berg (dberg)
Advanced Technology, Inc.
San Diego, CA

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