Re: more splitting

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Apr 17, 2026 at 10:11 AM Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> Zsh's slightly-older sister Bash has a built-in function called readarray that splits input on a delimiter and puts the resulting strings into an array; it is unusual in that it does keep the delimiter around by default at the end of each element.
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> That's about exactly what I was  suggesting in my private msg. just now.  Splitting information could be preserved very easily.  But altering the data ... wrong on principle.

You're still misunderstanding.  readarray still takes a byte stream as
input, so in most of your examples the separator information is
ALREADY "lost" before readarray would even see it.  What readarray
does is build a NEW array based on the bytes in the stream.  There's
no inherent preservation of data from a source array.