From: Zefram <A.Main@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
To: jdl@clinicom.com (J.D. Laub)
Cc: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: IFS contains Meta - why?
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 01:08:50 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7151.199606220008@stone.dcs.warwick.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199606211947.NAA182748@clinicom.com> from "J.D. Laub" at Jun 21, 96 01:47:56 pm
>> 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 combination {Meta, ' '} is used to represent NUL. IFS now, by
default, consists of space, tab, newline and NUL.
> 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".
It can't handle the NUL, which is hardly surprising really.
-zefram
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