From: Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk
Subject: Re: About word splitting in read
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 12:22:57 +0200 (MET DST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200006231022.MAA06581@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: "Andrej Borsenkow"'s message of Fri, 23 Jun 2000 14:16:41 +0400
Andrej Borsenkow wrote:
> The last patch reminded me ...
>
> Currently we can
>
> - either read in the whole line (with length unknown in advance) theat
> is IFS-splitted
> - or read in fixed number of raw characters
>
> Several times I wished, we could read in the whole line but in *raw*
> mode, that is, without any word splitting. It is somewhat hard to
> implement this, as we end up with too long/incomplete line so we need
> some sort of buffered IO on top of read etc
>
> How hard would be to add this to read? With semantic "read in the whole
> line and assign it to scalar unchanged".
Errr... in what way does `read -r foo' not do what you want?
Bye
Sven
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Sven Wischnowsky wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de
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2000-06-23 10:22 Sven Wischnowsky [this message]
2000-06-23 10:37 ` Andrej Borsenkow
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2000-06-23 10:41 Sven Wischnowsky
2000-06-23 10:16 Andrej Borsenkow
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