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From: Lucio De Re <lucio.dere@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2018 16:54:24 +0200
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Subject: Re: [9fans] simple rc problem in p9p (on OpenBSD)
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w=(A B C)

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On 4/26/18, Rudolf Sykora <rudolf.sykora@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello
>
> I, using OpenBSD's p9p, see this
>
> % w='A
>     B
>     C'
> % echo $w
> A
> B
> C
> % for(i in $w) {echo $i; echo XXX}
> A
> B
> C
> XXX
>
> ie, w in for is taken as just one argument instead of
> 3. What can I do with it?
>
> I haven't modified ifs (it should be \n space and tab).
> (How can I check, say see the character codes?)
>
> Thanks for comments
> Ruda
>
>


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