From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@euclid.skiles.gatech.edu [130.207.146.50]) by melb.werple.net.au (8.7.5/8.7.3/2) with ESMTP id EAA06958 for ; Tue, 25 Jun 1996 04:03:58 +1000 (EST) Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA07394; Mon, 24 Jun 1996 13:50:06 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 13:50:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Zefram Message-Id: <8282.199606241720@stone.dcs.warwick.ac.uk> Subject: Re: read broken in beta21 To: hzoli@cs.elte.hu (Zoltan Hidvegi) Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 18:20:36 +0100 (BST) Cc: A.Main@dcs.warwick.ac.uk, zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu In-Reply-To: <199606241157.NAA02656@bolyai.cs.elte.hu> from "Zoltan Hidvegi" at Jun 24, 96 01:57:53 pm X-Loop: zefram@dcs.warwick.ac.uk X-Stardate: [-31]7708.61 X-US-Congress: Moronic fuckers MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-Message-ID: <"MUsEY.0.Pp1.DLjpn"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1434 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu >What is sh? I was referring to the Bourne shell. > The line shall be split into fields (see the definition in 3.1.3) as in > the shell (see 3.6.5); the first field shall be assigned to the first > variable var, the second field to the second variable var, etc. If there > are fewer var operands specified than there are fields, the leftover > fields and their intervening separators shall be assigned to the last ^^^^^^^^^^^ > var. If there are fewer fields than vars, the remaining vars shall be set > to empty strings. It sounds to me like trailing IFS characters are not *intervening* separators, and should therefore be removed. -zefram