Re: Fwd: more splitting travails

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 6:19 PM Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 2024-01-12 12:51, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> > Close.  It's the inner double quotes around $(<...) that preserve the
> > exact contents of the file.**
> >    Then the
> > outermost set of double quotes means "include empty array elements"
> > (which, because of (f), is empty lines in this case).
>
> Nuts, if the innermost quotes say 'exact contents' then that seems
> redundant.

The innermost quotes are undone by (@f).  Working from the inside out,
past the (f) you no longer have the exact contents.

> And I thought the outermost parenthesis said 'this is an array', not the '@'

The outermost parens say that you are ASSIGNING TO an array, not WHAT
you are assigning to it.