Thanks Geoff for the prompt explanation, but I'm getting the same
results with ifs=() Not sure why, but I'm not sure I understand the
difference between setting ifs to '' and ().
Thanks again
uriel
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 1:40 AM, <ge...@plan9.bell-labs.com> wrote:
> Setting ifs='' defeats rc's tokenisation, so the result
> of `{} will be a series of rc `words', each limited to
> Wordmax (8192) bytes and with the next byte of the input
> stream after each word set to NUL.
>
> Did you perhaps intend to write ifs=(), which has different
> meaning?
>
>
