Hi. While we're on the subject of read, I've been sitting on these for a
while.
The first possible issue involves $'\n' as a field separator. This works in
Bash/zsh/mksh for mapping lines to separate members of an array, just not
ksh93:
$ ( printf %s\\n {a..f} | IFS=$'\n' read -rd '' -A a; typeset -p a )
typeset -a a=($'a\nb\nc\nd\ne\nf\n')
The second issue occurs when combining read -N with an assignment directly to
an array. Seems easy to reproduce:
$ ksh -c 'integer n=0; printf xxx | while read -rN1 "a[n++]"; do :; done'
Memory fault
Lastly, a tangentially related question about the FILESCAN feature. Is it
intentional for "$@" to expand to a single word in this context?
$ ( while <<<$'a b c\nd e f\ng h i'; do printf '<%s> ' "$@"; echo; done )
<a b c>
<d e f>
<g h i>
Thanks!
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Dan Douglas
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