On Fri, 15 Jun 2018 15:15:23 +0200, Davide Brini wrote:
> So it looks like the only "reliable" way to detect NULs in the input is to
> read one character at a time.
Your explanation got me thinking, and I've come up with the following code
that seems to be slightly more efficient than reading on
On Fri, 15 Jun 2018 09:07:46 -0400, Greg Wooledge
wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 03:03:21PM +0200, Davide Brini wrote:
> > $ printf 'a\x00\x00bc' | { while IFS= read -d '' -n 2 var; do echo
> > "read: $var, length: ${#var}"; done; } read: a, length: 1
> > read: , length: 0
> > read: bc, length:
On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 03:03:21PM +0200, Davide Brini wrote:
> $ printf 'a\x00\x00bc' | { while IFS= read -d '' -n 2 var; do echo "read:
> $var, length: ${#var}"; done; }
> read: a, length: 1
> read: , length: 0
> read: bc, length: 2
>
> I would expect there to be another read of length 0 betwee
