From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <006201c0f20b$9319af70$6401a8c0@freeze2k> From: "Matt" To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> References: <20010610223622.9CA12199C0@mail.cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] string to list? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 01:15:08 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: b35c8746-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathan Sergent" > What's wrong with words=(`{echo $line}) and then switch($words(1))? that is the answer I was looking for originally, thanks