Setting variables in c-shell

[Psykospot]

Hey all, I'm running into a problem when I try to set a variable to an awk output in c-shell. Right now my command is

set STR_MSG_TYPE = `awk -F\{ '/msg_type/ {print $2}' <filename> | tr -d }'/''*' `

I then run echo to see what the output is and it returns blank, however, when I run the same awk command from the command line, I get an actual output of "MT-715". Am I setting my variable incorrectly? I do something similar using the date command to set a STR_DATE variable earlier in the code and it works fine and I use the same syntax. Help oh wise unix gurus!

Thanks!

[chaosless]

first thing i see is your -F\
the \ is used to pass control characters so or if you are wanting the field separator to be a '\' you will need to supply \\

can test that with something like below:

$ set xx = `awk -F\\ '{print $2}'`
a \ b
$ echo $xx
b

also notice the actual awk script is surrounded by single quotes - this avoids the shell trying to interpret $ inside the script.