From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16962 invoked from network); 29 Mar 2004 01:30:22 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 29 Mar 2004 01:30:22 -0000 Received: (qmail 11432 invoked by alias); 29 Mar 2004 01:30:06 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 7289 Received: (qmail 11420 invoked from network); 29 Mar 2004 01:30:05 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO sunsite.dk) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 29 Mar 2004 01:30:05 -0000 X-MessageWall-Score: 0 (sunsite.dk) Received: from [130.225.247.86] by sunsite.dk (MessageWall 1.0.8) with SMTP; 29 Mar 2004 1:30:5 -0000 Received: (qmail 29336 invoked from network); 29 Mar 2004 01:30:05 -0000 Received: from smtpout-1-1c.secureserver.net (64.202.165.65) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 29 Mar 2004 01:30:02 -0000 Received: (qmail 24192 invoked from network); 29 Mar 2004 01:29:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO webmail-2-3.mesa1.secureserver.net) (64.202.166.82) by smtpout-1-1c.secureserver.net with SMTP; 29 Mar 2004 01:29:47 -0000 Received: (qmail 29797 invoked by uid 99); 29 Mar 2004 01:29:34 -0000 Message-ID: <20040329012934.29796.qmail@webmail-2-3.mesa1.secureserver.net> Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 18:29:34 -0700 From: jason@jnj.org Subject: RE: IFS, set, and positional parameters not doing what I expect To: Bart Schaefer cc: zsh-users@sunsite.dk MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 on a.mx.sunsite.dk X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.3 required=6.0 tests=NO_REAL_NAME autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Hits: 0.3 > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: IFS, set, and positional parameters not doing what I > > Works For Me (tm): > > schaefer<501> setopt shwordsplit > schaefer<502> f="a:b:c" > schaefer<503> OFS=$IFS; IFS=: ; set -- $f ; IFS=$OFS > schaefer<504> echo $1 > a I must be on drugs. I swear I tried that 3 different ways and it didn't work. Naturally, it works fine now. Thanks! -- Jason