string to array space problem in filenames

[Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>]

Gentlemen:

I should probably know this, but I'm rusty after a few months not 
thinking about zsh.  I have a personal implementation of a dirstack that 
just pushes $PWD to the end of a file then rereads the file to an array 
which is then sent to 'select' to let me change directory. I like it 
because it survives reboot and works across xterms and removes 
duplicates and so on.  The only thing that trips it up is when a 
directory is pushed that contains a space.  I have few of those, so it's 
just an irritation, still I'd like to fix it if possible.  Here's one of 
the offending directories:

     pts/1 HP-w5--5-Debian1 root /root/.icedove/Ray/Mail/Local Folders

... which 'select' does this with:


1) QUIT
2) /aWorking/Zsh
3) Folders
4) /root/.icedove/Ray/Mail/Local

... because it breaks at the space, obviously.  Is there some way around 
that?  I've tried various quotes and slashes and incantations and 
spells, but no luck.  I expect that 'select' can't be expected to behave 
differently so somehow the array needs to know to protect spaces in 
directory names.  I'm fuzzified why protecting them with quotes doesn't 
do it.