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Re: read broken in beta21

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From: Zefram <A.Main@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: hzoli@xxxxxxxxxx (Zoltan Hidvegi)
Subject: Re: read broken in beta21
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 18:20:36 +0100 (BST)
Cc: A.Main@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <199606241157.NAA02656@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> from "Zoltan Hidvegi" at Jun 24, 96 01:57:53 pm

>What is sh?

I was referring to the Bourne shell.

> The line shall be split into fields (see the definition in 3.1.3) as in
> the shell (see 3.6.5); the first field shall be assigned to the first
> variable var, the second field to the second variable var, etc.  If there
> are fewer var operands specified than there are fields, the leftover
> fields and their intervening separators shall be assigned to the last
                   ^^^^^^^^^^^
> var. If there are fewer fields than vars, the remaining vars shall be set
> to empty strings.

It sounds to me like trailing IFS characters are not *intervening*
separators, and should therefore be removed.

-zefram

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