From: "J.D. Laub" <jdl@clinicom.com>
To: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu
Subject: IFS contains Meta - why?
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 13:47:56 -0600 (MDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199606211947.NAA182748@clinicom.com> (raw)
% rcsdiff -r2.9 -r2.10 init.c,v
2c2
< * $Id: init.c,v 2.8 1996/05/02 23:01:04 [...]
---
> * $Id: init.c,v 2.9 1996/05/02 23:01:04 [...]
[...]
603c606,607
< ifs = ztrdup(" \t\n");
---
> ifs = ztrdup(" \t\n ");
> ifs[3] = Meta;
1) Why does a space (0x20) appear both at the start and end of IFS?
2) Why is Meta in there (contrary to the man page)? The sort command
under HPUX 10.01 stops processing when it runs across non-ascii
characters, so I see nothing after IFS when I run "set | sort".
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1996-06-21 19:47 J.D. Laub [this message]
1996-06-22 0:08 ` Zefram
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