Re: read

[Alan Watson <alan@oldp.astro.wisc.edu>]

Yes, I know.  I don't actually think it is that clumsy.

Since awk appeared in read in the examples file, I assumed awk performed
unbuffered reads (I was rather surprised, I must admit); direct
experiment reveals this not to be the case.  I suggest that the read in
the EXAMPLES file be replaced with

fn read {
	if ( ! ~ $#* 1 ) {
		echo >[1=2] Usage: read variable
		return 1
	} 
	var = $1 {
		ifs = $nl { * = `{ line ; echo $status } }
		$var = $1
		return $2
	}
}