From: Marc Chantreux <eiro@phear.org>
To: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
Cc: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: read options to slurp empty lines ?
Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2018 08:58:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180602065843.GA22633@prometheus.u-strasbg.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH+w=7bUdOB2DjCZmf5zWhL-9dM0ScSt6zPzuAmJK3EmEDsiyQ@mail.gmail.com>
> > slurp () IFS=$'\n' read -r -d ' -A $1
> I presume that to be a typo or cut-and-paste error because you have an
> unmatched single quote there.
indeed!
slurp () IFS=$'\n' read -r -d '' -A $1
> % typeset -p them
> typeset -a them=( bar bang '' )
typeset -p is awesome! thanks for this :)
> The behavior of "read" is to collapse multiple consecutive occurrences
> of $IFS characters into a single one.
and then i feel dump because i know it :(
> Only that there's no simple way to make it do what you want. :-)
> You're probably looking for this:
> slurp() {
> local REPLY
> IFS= read -d '' &&
> set -A ${1:-reply} "${(@f)REPLY}"
> }
much more elegant that mine. thank you!
marc
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-02 6:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-01 21:47 Marc Chantreux
2018-06-02 1:17 ` Bart Schaefer
2018-06-02 6:58 ` Marc Chantreux [this message]
2018-06-02 22:06 ` Marc Chantreux
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