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From: | Marc Herbert |
Subject: | Re: inconsistent field splitting |
Date: | Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:25:13 +0100 |
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>> There is a big difference between >> >> $ a=";" >> >> and >> >> $ a=; > And for the VERY ignorant what is the difference In the second case the unescaped semi-colon is a separator totally unrelated to the assignment, which has no value at all. The variable is assigned an empty string.
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