Re: [EXT]Re: Suddenly, periods / dots in variable values are converted to space

[Chandler]

Greg Wooledge wrote on 1/23/23 5:44 PM:
> localized to a single command, as in:
>    IFS=. read -ra myarray ...
> or in a function:
>    join() { local IFS="$1"; shift; printf '%s\n' "$*"; }
Yes that's what I figured, but, can it be both, without local?  It was 
something like this:
join() {
  IFS=. read -ra myarray ...
  ...
}

Yet for some reason IFS was persisting.  Fortunately, it was unneeded and I 
figured a way to do the same thing without IFS.