Hi,
I am writing a csh script, and want to have an optional command line
argument in the form '-argument'.
Basically I want the usage to be: script [-d] filename

Now the problem I have is that in the script, the 'if' statement does
not seem to like the '-' in the $1 variable (i.e. the script breaks
with a 'if expression syntax error' is there is a '-' in the
appropriate argument)
How would people suggest I get around it?  Is there some way to escape
the '-' (not while invoking the script)?
Remember the -d is optional.

thanks for any help,
Kevin
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From article <22kaee$...@nic.umass.edu>, by mock...@twain.ucs.umass.edu (Kevin A. Mocklin):

        if [ "x$1" = "x-d" ]