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sr #110820: mapfile/readfile assigning blanks and newlines

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Submitted:  Sat 21 Jan 2023 05:33:07 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  None Priority:  5 - Normal
Severity:  3 - Normal Status:  Invalid
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Tue 24 Jan 2023 09:11:56 PM UTC, comment #2: 

Those are the correct results.

The values assigned to the array are

declare -a arr=([0]=$'a\n' [1]=$'b\n' [2]=$'c\n')

since you didn't tell mapfile to strip the delimiter (-t does that).

Those are the arguments that get passed to `echo'. `echo' does
what it does: display its arguments separated by spaces.

Since the arguments include newlines, the space echo uses to separate its arguments follows the newline.

Chet Ramey <chet>
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Sat 21 Jan 2023 05:40:59 AM UTC, comment #1: 

Sorry, it should of course read mapfile/readarray - still early in the morning ... so also forgot to login - so added email-address now only.

Martin Anantharaman <manantharaman>
Sat 21 Jan 2023 05:33:07 AM UTC, original submission:  

If I do this ...
martin@MartinsAspire ~]$ mapfile arr
a
b
c
[martin@MartinsAspire ~]$ echo "${arr[@]}"
... I see ...
a
 b
 c

[martin@MartinsAspire ~]$
... explaining an error in an arcane shell-library I a developing.

Another thing: As part of debugging this I tried delimiting with null instead of newline - but that flops because in command-substitution (when I am e.g. building a data-set to input as a here-document) null-chars are dropped (at least with a warning about it).

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