Re: Question on $IFS related differences (Was: Question on $@ vs $@$@)

[Steffen Nurpmeso]

Oğuz wrote in
 <CAH7i3Lq9xQnnkAO7cd5XZEsV4jY+Va6uWqjw3yaMi=A3mdh83g@mail.gmail.com>:
 |On Wed, Sep 18, 2024 at 4:19 AM Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen@sdaoden.eu> \
 |wrote:
 |>
 |
 |It boils down to this:

In this case, ok .. i have not spent time trying to vaporise it.
I haved added this standalone thing to my tests.

 |  f(){ echo $#;}; set "" "" ""; IFS=x; f $*
 |
 |bash, NetBSD and FreeBSD sh, and ksh88 all agree and print 2. pdksh
 |prints 3 but mksh and oksh print 1. dash, ksh93, yash, and zsh print
 |0.

I am totally surprised they all swallow this code, there is no
separating whitespace in between the ; and the } which closes the
function -- isn't that invalid syntax even??

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Thanks a lot for the impetus!

--steffen
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