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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
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Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2016 18:08:31 -0700
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Comments: In reply to Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>
        "Re: virtual files?" (Apr 22, 12:14am)
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On Apr 22, 12:14am, Emanuel Berg wrote:
}
}     read-test () {
}         local url=http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl
}         local result
}         wget -q $url -O - | read -d '' result
}         echo $result
}     }

You probably want
  print -r -- $result
to avoid any leading hyphens or other misc. sequences in $result from
being interpreted by echo.

} (I suppose the "delimiter" is EOF if set to nothing.)

Effectively yes.