Curious behaviour of Text::Parse::shellwords (was: [ic] Errors (Unknown filter)

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Fri Sep 28 18:45:02 2001


Quoting Stefan Hornburg (Racke) (racke@linuxia.de):
> Michael Hall <mhall@riverside.org> writes:
> 
> If I run 'set      a        b         c' in the shell, I get
> $1='a'. 

Yes, but that does't use Perl's split.

In any case, I just committed a change to CVS which avoids
the error.

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