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From: Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: please advice
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 14:14:37 +0200 (MET DST)
In-reply-to: Mircea Damian's message of Fri, 30 Jun 2000 15:03:13 +0300
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Mircea Damian wrote:

> ...
> 
> I don't see what can be wrong if I use word splitting on that variable(btw,
> word splitting is done by using WORDCHARS or just white spaces?).. is there
> somewhere an impediment for that?

It uses the characters from $IFS for word splitting.

The advantage of using arrays is the easier handling if the words
contain spaces, which, of course, isn't important in your example (but 
it may be a good idea to get used to it anyway).

Bye
 Sven

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Sven Wischnowsky                         wischnow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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