Re: using mapfile is extreamly slow compared to oldfashinod ways to read files

[Chet Ramey]

Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:

>    Chet, how about an option to mapfile that strips leading and/or
>    trailing spaces?
> 
>    Another useful option would be to remove newlines.

I'm disinclined to add one, since it's easy enough to use the
${line##[       ]} and ${line%%[        ]} constructs to remove
leading and trailing whitespace.  You can use the same expansions
or pattern substitution to remove newlines (using $'\n' to denote
a newline).

Chet

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