On 3/30/23 7:51 PM, Felipe Contreras wrote:
So? This is argumentum ad populum. The fact that most shells do X
doesn't imply that POSIX says X.
POSIX documents existing practice. If what it says differs from what the
majority of shells do, then it's POSIX that is wrong. And this mailing
list is not the right place to complain about it.
Yes. 'foo,bar,' has two terminators, and therefore two fields.
'foo,bar,roo' has two terminators and therefore two fields, plus
garbage. You want to interpret 'foo' as a field, even though it does
not have an an explicit terminator. But that's not specified anywhere
in POSIX. POSIX doesn't say what should be done with the text after
the last terminator. You could throw it away and still be conforming
to POSIX.
I don't think *to SPLIT using delimiters as field terminators* involves
leaving any part out.
