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From: Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>
To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: lost my space ...
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 10:33:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <EXCHANGE03kJXrRjbDt0000403a@exchange03.csr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <442A4D8E.4050206@ulpmm.u-strasbg.fr>

Marc Chantreux wrote:
> say this text as stdin :
> 
> uid: suzan
> description: R&D leader,
>   doesn't know unix
>   but skilled in C programming
> 
> 
> the problem is that "while { read line }" will crunch the space at the 
> begin of the line.

Use
  IFS= read line

If you really want raw input lines, you might want the -r flag to read
as well.

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-29  9:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-29  9:04 Marc Chantreux
2006-03-29  9:33 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2006-03-29  9:47   ` Marc Chantreux

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