text: #!/bin/bash
  # Planets revisited.
  
  # Associate the name of each planet with its distance from the sun.
  
  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.
  
    #  May need to save original positional parameters,
    #+ since they get overwritten.
    #  One way of doing this is to use an array,
    #         original_params=("$@")
  
    echo "$1		$2,000,000 miles from the sun"
    #-------two  tabs---concatenate zeroes onto parameter $2
  done
  
  # (Thanks, S.C., for additional clarification.)
  
  exit 0
  