🚀 go-pugleaf

Before I get flooded with more replies, let me post the answer that
barnett@crdgw1.ge.com, raymond@math.berkeley.edu and
christos@theory.tn.cornell.edu all basically gave me:

foreach i ($*)
  if ( $i =~ -* ) then
    # is an arg
  else
    # is not
  endif
end

Apart from the typo ~= instead of =~ , my problem was that I was quoting
the right hand side, thinking that I did not want filename expansion,
though as Raymond pointed out, I *do* want filename expansion, but
expansion in the context of the left hand side, not of the current
directory.  It seems like strange magic to me, but it works...

So thank-you for the replies.  By the way, no-one yet has answered my
second question: can you extract a character from a word?  (Again, no
forking allowed).
                                Jak                            jak@cs.brown.edu
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