From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3ff1e538838701045eea15d8b8a78e14@quanstro.net> References: <5d375e920903171623o342cd0e9t71c99f1610336273@mail.gmail.com> <3ff1e538838701045eea15d8b8a78e14@quanstro.net> Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 01:26:32 +0100 Message-ID: <5d375e920903171726n14a9fc13h1bbd0c240361c34e@mail.gmail.com> From: Uriel To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Strange rc bug for the 9fans bug-squashing squad Topicbox-Message-UUID: bdc8dd8c-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > why can't you just let ifs = $newline (formatted to fit your screen) ? Unfortunately that doesn't work in this case, my input is HTTP post data, which is a single line of URL-encoded text which I have to decode into multiple parameters of arbitrary length. Still, if no characters were getting lost, I probably can figure some way to work around the issue and stitch things together after they get split. uriel