Re: [Bashburn-info] I think I fixed the AUTHOR problem.

[Anders L. <and...@gm...>]

Meh, I sent my reply to Steven and not the list. Reposting it here.

If I'm not mistaken, IFS is something that is treated as a space or
newline character no? You can set a character like @, : or | in our case
to be treated as a whitespace to separate text fields?

On Sun, 2008-09-21 at 16:17 -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote:
> It looks like we have three different values that are being used for IFS. 
> There's the IFS=: which is needed to read a bbrc file. There's IFS=@ used 
> to pass uneval'd data to bbconfmenu. And now there's IFS='|' which is 
> needed to store configure_changes. (BTW, the implication is that a config 
> val may no longer contain an embedded pipe char.)
> 
> Nick, I hope this works. There's always one guy who screws up and makes 
> people aware that he's good at testing. I consider it a blessing. ;-) The 
> good news is that if you find anything wrong with it, it should be easy to 
> fix. (I try to never let people know that I know how to get the printer
> working. ;-)
> 
> On a related topic, I was just curious. Do people understand what IFS is 
> and what I'm doing with it? How it gets restored? etc...?
> 
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Anders Lindén
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