14 Sep
2016
14 Sep
'16
4:31 p.m.
Dear Robert,
In message alpine.LFD.2.20.1609140935240.5661@ca624034.mitel.com you wrote:
It will not realy work. "space-separated" is not good enough as a space character is a legal part of the value of an environment variable. You would need to tweak the import code.
but himport_r() explicitly takes a separator character, and i can guarantee the strings being "imported" have no embedded space characters in their values. so as long as that's the case, shouldn't himport_r() properly handle that given a separator of space?
Well, yes, but it sounds a bit fragile to me. Experience tells me that very soon someone _will_ use a space in a variable.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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