Re: [PATCH v3] builtin: Fix handling of trailing IFS white spaces

[Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 12:35:15PM +0200, Harald van Dijk wrote:
>
> The results are a lot better now, but I did spot a problem:
> 
> src/dash -c 'X="x  "; echo $X'
> 
> This is supposed to print "x\n", but the IFS breakup of $X generates
> two words, one "x", one " ", meaning "x  \n" gets printed instead. I
> think this is intended to get fixed up in the if (ifsspc) block, but
> that block doesn't get executed when there are no more characters
> after the spaces.

Weird, I can't reproduce this at all:

$ src/dash -c 'X="x "; echo $X' | cat -A
x$
$ 

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,
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