Re: why must non-standard $IFS members be treated so differently ?

[DJ Mills]

On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Jason Vas Dias
<jason.vas.d...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>      function count_colons {  IFS=':' ;    v=($@);  echo ${#v[@]}; }
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count_colons() { local n=${*//[!:]}; printf '%s\n' "${#n}"; }