#!/bin/bash
# Planets revisited.

# Associate the	name of	each planet with its distance from the sun.

echo '$#= ' $#
for planet in "Mercury 36" "Venus 67" "Earth 93"  "Mars	142" "Jupiter 483"
do
  set -- $planet  # Parses variable "planet" and sets positional parameters.
  # the	"--" prevents nasty surprises if $planet is null or begins with	a dash.
echo '$#= ' $#
  echo "$1		$2,000,000 miles from the sun"
  #-------two  tabs---concatenate zeroes onto parameter	$2
done

exit 0