Thanks Geoff for the prompt explanation, but I'm getting the same results with ifs=() Not sure why, but I'm not sure I understand the difference between setting ifs to '' and ().
Thanks again uriel On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 1:40 AM, <ge...@plan9.bell-labs.com> wrote: > Setting ifs='' defeats rc's tokenisation, so the result > of `{} will be a series of rc `words', each limited to > Wordmax (8192) bytes and with the next byte of the input > stream after each word set to NUL. > > Did you perhaps intend to write ifs=(), which has different > meaning? > >