What are you running this on, is this byron's rc on unix?
I just tried the secript I posted, cut and pasted into a
tiny shell scropt called testread, and it just worked™
maybe some other part of your script has a problem?
My script below
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#!/bin/rc
cat $1 | while(line=`{read}){
echo $line
}
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Also, I didn't have the time to read all of your previous question,
but I think what you are after is $"varname, this expands to the value
of the variable but as a single argument, no matter if it, when
it was assigned, had multiple, white space seperated words in it.
for example: (NB: hugo% is my prompt)
hugo% fred=(a b c d)
hugo% echo $fred^-letter
a-letter b-letter c-letter d-letter
hugo% echo $"fred^-letter
a b c d-letter
-Steve
