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From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 17:02:09 +0100
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Subject: Re: [9fans] rc niggle, and proposed fix
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>ifs seems a holdover.  it's only ever used in `{} yet
>it's a global inherited variable.  so it's easy to write
>a script that assumes that ifs is set to the default.

i wonder if it's best left alone. it isn't detailed enough
to crack many plausible formats, for instance full csv.
if i needed one of those formats to feed into a `{} i'd add
a filter that converted to quoted & space-separated fields
that the default ifs would crack.