Re: Fwd: more splitting travails

[Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>]

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On 2024-01-13 10:22, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> That would be tilde, not (P).
I was about to explore the difference.  I have them conflated in my head 
at the moment.
> http://rocky.github.io/zshdb/
> Never really tried it myself, but the author has sought advice from
> the lists on occasion.

I'll check it out.  Tx.

So, bottom line of this thread is that things have to be sent forward 
with the right massaging to make sure blanks are not removed: > 
"${(@f)vvar}" < ... trying to retrieve the blanks after the fact is 
impossible cuz they're gone.  Only thing left to wish for is someway of 
making it the default that all assignments will include *everything*.  
Oh, and don't be fooled by a single element that happens to have 
newlines within it -- they might look the same but they ain't.  > % read 
  read -rd '' < testfile2 aaa < ... is a false friend because '$aaa' 
will be a single element.  Likewise > : ${vvar2::=$vvar} < is a false 
friend because it looses blanks.   Seems a verbatim exact assignment is 
not really provided, which seems very strange.  But Roman has shown a 
solution.



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