how to set a standard input to a variable

Dear Sir,
      I want to get a standard input from keyboard and then set it to one new variable via ncl. The snippet is as follows,

     system("read name")
    var=systemfunc("echo ${name}")
    print(var)

  
   But the result just shows a missing value. Why does not it work? Or, any alternative method can solve it? Thanks in advance!
     
      

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Received on Tue Mar 30 18:39:40 2010