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Re: IFS valid characters
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: IFS valid characters |
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Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:43:36 -0400 |
> What are the valid charactes for the IFS variable? In particular, is '\0' a
> valid one?
Technically, yes, but in practice it's not useful. There are too many things
represented as C strings to make NUL work right.
Chet
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