Re: [EXT]Re: Suddenly, periods / dots in variable values are converted to space

[Kerin Millar]

On Mon, 23 Jan 2023 21:36:05 -0700
Chandler <admin@genome.arizona.edu> wrote:

> Greg Wooledge wrote on 1/23/23 5:44 PM:
> > localized to a single command, as in:
> >    IFS=. read -ra myarray ...
> > or in a function:
> >    join() { local IFS="$1"; shift; printf '%s\n' "$*"; }
> Yes that's what I figured, but, can it be both, without local?  It was 
> something like this:
> join() {
>    IFS=. read -ra myarray ...
>    ...
> }

It can't possibly have been on account of that particular example. The 
assignment to IFS had to have been performed independently, be it within that 
function or elsewhere.

-- 
Kerin Millar