Re: HELP: strange behaviour of shell (bash)

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

On Mo, 23 Apr 2012, Norbert Preining wrote:
>     set -- $line
>     name=""
>     lhm=""
>     rhm=""
>     synonyms=""
>     f=""
>     while [ ! "$1" = "" ] ; do
>         case "$1" in
>             name=*) name="${1#name=}" ;;
>             lefthyphenmin=*) lhm="${1#lefthyphenmin=}" ;;
>             righthyphenmin=*) rhm="${1#righthyphenmin=}" ;;
>             patterns=*) patterns="${1#patterns=}" ;;
>             synonyms=*) synonyms="${1#synonyms=}" ;;
>             exceptions=*) exceptions="${1#exceptions=}" ;;
>             file=*) f="${1#file=}" ;;
>             *) echo "Unknown AddHypen directive $1 in line: ==$line==!" >&2 ; return ;;
>         esac
>         shift
>     done

And as I thought ... adding a few debug statements shows that 
at some point IFS changes from correct to ",\n" ... but who
is doing that???

It is me .... ;-)

Fixing update-fmtlang ...

Best wishes

Norbert
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Norbert Preining            preining@{jaist.ac.jp, logic.at, debian.org}
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