David Purdy wrote:
> Bash Version: 3.1
> Patch Level: 17
> Release Status: release
>
> Description:
> Substring operations that are meant to return an empty string ""
> sometimes return character "\177" instead.
>
[...]
> Fix:
> Bash script work-around: Use an int
Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
Machine: i486
OS: linux-gnu
Compiler: gcc
Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i486'
-DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i486-pc-linux-gnu'
-DCONF_VENDOR='pc' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/share/locale' -DPACKAGE='bash
