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From: Zoltan Hidvegi <hzoli@frontiernet.net>
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Subject: Re: lines as array elements
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> what I'd like to do is get each line into an array element like
[...]
> I've tried x=(`cat file`) but that splits on the spaces between the
> numbers. I've looked at the IFS variable and tried to change it to
> newline but that doesn't work as expected.

There were several solutions, but here is a simple one:

x=( "${(f)$(< file)}" )

Zoltan