On 30 April 2012 18:20, David Korn <[email protected]> wrote: > > 4. In most cases, setting IFS='' is better than the default since > $x won't get split. You rarely want splitting except for read > and set. read can be handled with IFS=<delim> read ... > Set requires saving and restoring IFS.
I'm intrigued by this suggestion. A reasonable way to save/restore IFS for the 'set' common case: IFS=<delim> eval set \$var David Jones _______________________________________________ ast-users mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.research.att.com/mailman/listinfo/ast-users
