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From: Uriel <uriel99@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Strange rc bug for the 9fans bug-squashing squad
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 23:16:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5d375e920903171516u70adbf43nb147bdd2f593007a@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <25479e8147755f260fe66dc2a9c91ef7@plan9.bell-labs.com>

Thanks Geoff for the prompt explanation, but I'm getting the same
results with ifs=() Not sure why, but I'm not sure I understand the
difference between setting ifs to '' and ().

Thanks again

uriel

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 1:40 AM,  <geoff@plan9.bell-labs.com> wrote:
> Setting ifs='' defeats rc's tokenisation, so the result
> of `{} will be a series of rc `words', each limited to
> Wordmax (8192) bytes and with the next byte of the input
> stream after each word set to NUL.
>
> Did you perhaps intend to write ifs=(), which has different
> meaning?
>
>



  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-17 22:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-17  0:40 geoff
2009-03-17 22:16 ` Uriel [this message]
2009-03-17 22:24   ` erik quanstrom
2009-03-17 23:14     ` Uriel
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-03-16 23:26 Uriel
2009-03-17  1:31 ` Martin Neubauer
2009-03-17  2:01   ` Martin Neubauer
2009-03-17 22:27     ` Uriel
2009-03-17 22:43       ` erik quanstrom
2009-03-17 23:23         ` Uriel
2009-03-17 23:26           ` erik quanstrom
2009-03-18  0:26             ` Uriel
2009-03-18  1:23               ` Russ Cox
2009-03-18  7:31                 ` Gabriel Díaz López de la Llave
2009-03-18 10:31                 ` maht
2009-03-18 15:27                   ` erik quanstrom
2009-03-18  1:25               ` erik quanstrom
2009-03-18 11:30                 ` Uriel
2009-03-18 10:53         ` roger peppe
2009-03-18 13:18           ` erik quanstrom
2009-03-18 13:52             ` roger peppe
2009-03-18 14:16               ` erik quanstrom
2009-03-18 14:36                 ` roger peppe

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