On 21/06/2024 02:33, Martijn Dekker wrote:
As of commit c0674f487c7aec2a3bdf6795cea7e60c9530c360, field splitting
is broken. Minimal-ish reproducer:
$ dash -c 'IFS=:; v=" :: :: "; set $v; echo $#'
5
Expected output: 2
This results in 5 in bash, ksh, older dash, yash, everything I can think
to test. Whitespace IFS characters is meant to be handled differently
from non-whitespace IFS characters, I think 5 is the correct result.
But with IFS=": " instead of IFS=:, the output was previously 4, is
supposed to be 4, and has changed to 2; I agree that it looks like dash
has introduced a bug here.
Cheers,
Harald van Dijk
