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From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
To: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Discrepancy in IFS handling (zsh is POSIX compliant)
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2023 05:11:46 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMP44s31HWYdR+Qn7w7yxzsboheEf_6xFv4yv6qGS8NBT_pqhA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hi,

I was going to report a bug about a discrepancy in the handling of
IFS, until I read what the POSIX standard says about it [1].

The example is this:

    IFS=,
    str='foo,bar,,roo,'
    printf '"%s"\n' $str

In bash there's four fields, the last comma is ignored, in zsh there's
five fields. In my system dash and ksh also output four fields, like
bash.

However, this is what POSIX says:

    3.b. Each occurrence in the input of an IFS character that is not
IFS white space, along with any adjacent IFS white space, shall
delimit a field, as described previously.

We ignore all the white space stuff (since we are not using white
spaces), and thus:

    Each occurrence in the input of an IFS character shall delimit a field.

In zsh each occurrence of a comma does delimit a field (4 commas, 5
fields), which to me is what POSIX says should happen.

So in this particular case it seems zsh is complying with POSIX (even
in zsh mode), and all other shells are not.

So there's no bug (at least in zsh), I just wanted to let you know
what I found, and see if you agreed with my interpretation.

Cheers.

[1] https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html#tag_18_06_05

-- 
Felipe Contreras


             reply	other threads:[~2023-03-30 11:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-03-30 11:11 Felipe Contreras [this message]
2023-03-30 12:05 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2023-03-30 12:10   ` Discrepancy in IFS handling (zsh is *not* " Felipe Contreras
2023-03-30 14:49     ` Ray Andrews
2023-03-30 15:09       ` Felipe Contreras
2023-03-30 15:31         ` Ray Andrews
2023-03-30 14:57     ` Bart Schaefer
2023-03-30 15:34       ` Felipe Contreras
2023-03-31 20:16   ` Discrepancy in IFS handling (zsh is " Felipe Contreras
2023-04-01 19:20     ` Lawrence Velázquez
2023-03-31 16:38 ` Thomas Paulsen
2023-03-31 20:18   ` Felipe Contreras

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