In article <5r50109oeus8re6110cg08ljhi87kslvik@4ax.com>,
Scott McMillan <smcm@usa.net> wrote:

> IFS=``

It's not related to your original problem, but you have the wrong type
of quotes there. Those are backticks, and they're used for command
substitution. You should be using single quotes:

IFS=''

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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
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