On 2024-01-12 11:19, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 11:05 AM Ray Andrews<rayandrews@eastlink.ca>  wrote:
> This is probably the place you're getting messed up. HOW do you read
> it into a variable?
1 /aWorking/Zsh/Source/Wk 0 % vvar=( ${"$(<testfile2)"} ) 1 
/aWorking/Zsh/Source/Wk 0 % print -l $vvar[@] one two three four five 
six seven

eight

... so it' looks right. Mind, I know there can be invisible problems.