- Original Message -
From: "Chet Ramey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Stahlman Family" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: ; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 7:26 AM
Subject: Re: Trailing null fields are discarded while leading ones are prese
Stahlman Family wrote:
> Ok. I have found an IEEE interpretation for 1003.2-1992 3.6.5
> (interpretation #98) on the web, and I see that the behavior is correct.
> The thing that wasn't quite clarified by the clarification is the
> question: "If IFS serves only to terminate fields, then how is it
- Original Message -
From: "Chet Ramey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Stahlman Family" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: ; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 9:00 AM
Subject: Re: Trailing null fields are discarded while leading ones are preserv
Stahlman Family wrote:
> I guess the question is, what is meant by "delimits a field" in the
> following excerpt from the Bash manual?
>
> "Any character in IFS that is not IFS whitespace, along with any
> adjacent IFS whitespace characters, delimits a field."
>
> I suppose I'm interpreting it t
