C Shell help

Computer Acolyte · Jun 19, 2008

Can anoyne explain to me why the line
Code:
set line = ($<)
in a C Shell script yields the following error:
"set: Variable name must begin with a letter"?
It does start with a letter, so what gives?
The input it recieves from the standard input line does start with a number, but that should have nothing to do with it. Yet for some reason if I give it some other input (not from the standard input channel) it stops complaining.

I've been trying to figure this out for about two hours straight, can anyone clue me in?

PC-XT · Jul 1, 2008

set a=($<)
is an example from a C Shell book I found. I don't think the extra space would be causing the problem. Maybe "line" is already used somewhere else or something?

I also found this on Wikipedia:

If scripts are written in csh, it is often useful to run the script with the -f flag, (e.g. by starting with the line #!/bin/csh -f) in order to avoid running the user's setup file as this may affect the script's behaviour.
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