From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14606 invoked from network); 30 Jun 2000 12:15:19 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 30 Jun 2000 12:15:19 -0000 Received: (qmail 20053 invoked by alias); 30 Jun 2000 12:14:46 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 3239 Received: (qmail 20046 invoked from network); 30 Jun 2000 12:14:45 -0000 Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 14:14:37 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <200006301214.OAA00887@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de> From: Sven Wischnowsky To: zsh-users@sunsite.auc.dk In-reply-to: Mircea Damian's message of Fri, 30 Jun 2000 15:03:13 +0300 Subject: Re: please advice Mircea Damian wrote: > ... > > I don't see what can be wrong if I use word splitting on that variable(btw, > word splitting is done by using WORDCHARS or just white spaces?).. is there > somewhere an impediment for that? It uses the characters from $IFS for word splitting. The advantage of using arrays is the easier handling if the words contain spaces, which, of course, isn't important in your example (but it may be a good idea to get used to it anyway). Bye Sven -- Sven Wischnowsky wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de