Re: weird problem -- path interpretted/eval'd as numeric expression

[Pierre Gaston]

On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 5:10 PM, John Kearney <dethrophes@web.de> wrote:
> consider
> dethrophes@dethace ~
> $ read -ra vals -d '' <<< $'lkjlksda\n adasd\n:sdasda:'
>
> dethrophes@dethace ~
> $ echo ${vals[0]}
> lkjlksda
>
> I meant to update your wiki about it but I forgot.
> I guess read uses gets not fread and that truncates the line anyway.
>
you miss the IFS part:
IFS=: read -ra vals -d '' <<< $'lkjlksda\n adasd\n:sdasda:'
echo "${vals[0]}"

(IFS contains \n by default)