csh script read multiple values from each line in text file

Hi,

I have a text file with entries as follows:


In a unix script (which is csh and can't be changed), I want to read the contents of each file line by line and attribute each "column" of data to a separate variable so that further processing can be done on it before then reading the second line

In an ideal world this would be something line

foreach $line (`cat filea`)
   set valuea= `echo $line | awk '{print1}'`
   set valueb= `echo $line | awk '{print2}'`
   set valuec= `echo $line | awk '{print3}'`
   [do other things before moving on to the next line in filea]
end

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but that doesn't work as it sees each "column" as a "line".

Googling shows plenty of suggestions for when other unix shells, but I'm looking for a way to do this in csh.

Any help much appreciated.