From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 21 06:12:34 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00EA916A4CE for ; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 06:12:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.prodigy.net.mx (nlpproxy08.prodigy.net.mx [148.235.52.28]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAB4243D2D for ; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 06:12:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mapsware@prodigy.net.mx) Received: from smtp.prodigy.net.mx (nlpproxy08 [148.235.52.28]) by smtp.prodigy.net.mx (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.21 (built Sep 8 2003)) with ESMTP id <0I5X00EOI7WMIV@smtp.prodigy.net.mx>; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 01:12:23 -0500 (CDT) Received: from[201.129.149.189])(built Sep 8 2003))with ESMTP id <0I5X00K687WMCH@smtp.prodigy.net.mx>; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 01:12:22 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 23:12:32 -0700 From: Martin Paredes To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <200410202312.32246.mapsware@prodigy.net.mx> Organization: MAPSware MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 X-imss-version: 2.11 X-imss-result: Passed X-imss-scores: Clean:12.28191 C:22 M:1 S:5 R:5 X-imss-settings: Baseline:3 C:2 M:2 S:2 R:2 (0.5000 1.0000) Subject: read variable with numeric values in tcsh X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 06:12:34 -0000 Hi: in a script I wan to read from the user the strin "1 2 3" but I always get an error [martin@kitty] ~> set var $< 1 2 3 set: Variable name must begin with a letter. any ideas?