Re: field splitting

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 10:54 AM Pier Paolo Grassi <pierpaolog@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> so it's a bug in that version? this is the zsh that comes with ubuntu xenial

It's intentional behavior; the newer version provides an alternate
behavior that is closer to what you want.

The workaround in older versions of zsh is to use a dummy array
variable:   ${${(As: :)dummy::=$line}[1]}