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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 05:33:16 -0800
To: 9fans@9fans.net
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Subject: Re: [9fans] rc and whitespaces
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> This is also fine, a b and c are just two fields when they
> enter echo but they leave the appear to be 3 seperate words.
>
> 	hugo% s=`{echo '''a b''' c}
> 	hugo% echo $#s $s(1)
> 	3 'a
> This is disappointing, I was hoping that I would get
> 2 args and the first would be 'a b' (quotes here for
> clarity, I was hoping there would be none in the assinged
> variable $s
>
> Is this what one would expect or is the text parsing
> by `{ .. } different to rc's normal one - dare I say broken.

f.psiorz@gmx.de is correct.  expected behavior.  you could wrap
tokenize in a little program outputting a token per line and then do

	ifs=$nl s=`{echo $list | tokenize}

9atom's rc has additional syntax that prevents ifs from being
global shared state (and the source of many script interation bugs)

	s=`$nl {echo $list | tokenize}

- erik