Re: IFS field splitting doesn't conform with POSIX

[Oğuz İsmail Uysal]

On 3/30/23 7:51 PM, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> So? This is argumentum ad populum. The fact that most shells do X 
> doesn't imply that POSIX says X. 
POSIX documents existing practice. If what it says differs from what the 
majority of shells do, then it's POSIX that is wrong. And this mailing 
list is not the right place to complain about it.

> Yes. 'foo,bar,' has two terminators, and therefore two fields. 
> 'foo,bar,roo' has two terminators and therefore two fields, plus 
> garbage. You want to interpret 'foo' as a field, even though it does 
> not have an an explicit terminator. But that's not specified anywhere 
> in POSIX. POSIX doesn't say what should be done with the text after 
> the last terminator. You could throw it away and still be conforming 
> to POSIX. 
I don't think *to SPLIT using delimiters as field terminators* involves 
leaving any part out.