Re: PATCH: Re: FW: About word splitting in read (Zsh)

["Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Aug 3,  4:44pm, Andrej Borsenkow wrote:
} Subject: RE: PATCH: Re: FW: About word splitting in read (Zsh)
}
} > > But still. The docs are wrong (backslashes inside the string). Should
} > > we change the code or the doc?
} >
} > This changes the docs.
} 
} And this tries to clarify it a bit more. The docs are IMHO still misleading -
} at least, I get impression that consecuitive whitespaces between words are
} eliminated. That is not the case:
} 
} bor@itsrm2% read foo
}   bar   baz
} bor@itsrm2% print %$foo%
} %bar   baz%

This happens only when "leftover fields [are] assigned to the last name."
It's consistent with bash.  Ash preserves both the inter-field AND the
trailing whitespace in that circumstance, which would lead me to guess
that the original Bourne `read' doesn't strip trailing whitespace.

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