Substring Expansion doesn't respect IFS when using in Heredoc

2022-09-01 Thread Aloxaf Yin
Hello, I encountered something strange when using bash. It seems like a bug so someone suggested that I ask here. Here is the test code. declare -a arr=(12 34 56 78 90) IFS=',' cat <<<"${arr[*]:0}" cat <

Hierarchical data (was: Light weight support for JSON)

2022-09-01 Thread Chris Dunlop
On Wed, Aug 31, 2022 at 11:11:26AM -0400, Chet Ramey wrote: On 8/29/22 2:03 PM, tetsu...@scope-eye.net wrote: It would also help greatly if the shell could internally handle hierarchical data in variables. That's a fundamental change. There would have to be a better reason to make it than han

Re: Substring Expansion doesn't respect IFS when using in Heredoc

2022-09-01 Thread Aloxaf Yin
Someone in stackoverflow reminded me that this bug didn't exist before 5.0, so I did a bisect and the result shows that the bug was first introduced in 057a9fbd. BTW, the question link is https://stackoverflow.com/questions/73571977 Aloxaf Yin 于2022年9月2日周五 00:54写道: > > Hello, I encountered somet