Re: Help fixing NativeMessaging host: read 32-bit message length in native byte order

[Lawrence Velázquez]

On Sat, Jun 24, 2023, at 7:22 PM, guest271314 wrote:
> Thanks. Can you explain why the double quoting of assigned variables is
> impotant?
>
> On Sat, Jun 24, 2023 at 3:59 PM dan b <tekvax@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> “Important safety tip #427” :)
>>
>> Remember to always double quote around assigned variables.
>> The life you save maybe your own…
>> I was just caught by this in a while done read csv file variable, because
>> I failed to double quote the data=“$line” assignment, the string contents
>> were getting changed in strange ways.

To my knowledge, the following simple assignments are equivalent
to bash, although they may not be in other shells in certain
circumstances.

        data=$line
        data="$line"

Perhaps Dan is underexplaining or misattributing the quoting issue
he encountered.

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vq