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Re: playing with IFS

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From: dana <dana@xxxxxxx>
To: "Ray Andrews" <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: playing with IFS
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:29:34 -0500
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On Sun 12 Apr 2026, at 17:24, dana wrote:
> you felt the need to mess with IFS because you took out the ${(f)...},
> not because you added the here string

oh i realised it's probably because you are trying to join an array by
\n's. if that's true, and again you can't just use zsh's native
functionality, you can use ${(F)...} on the inside as philippe showed

dana

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