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Subject: Re: [ast-users] Function readfile in ksh
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> I would like to reproduce here a function by David Korn:
>
> ==================cut here============================
> function readfile # var file
> {
> nameref var=$1
> set -f
> IFS=$'\n\n'
> var=( $(< $2))
> }
> ==================cut here============================
>
> I presume that [set -f] (disable file name generation) is locally scoped, but
> wh
> at about the assignment to IFS? It seems to me that IFS is globally scoped
> here,
> hence that assigment would most likey have bad side effects on the caller
> code.
>
You are correct. The line
IFS=$'\n\n'
should be
typeset IFS=$'\n\n'
which creates a local IFS for that function.
David Korn
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