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…ay assignments arr=($x) where x="hello world" now correctly splits into multiple array elements. Unquoted variable expansions in array literals now go through expand_word_to_fields which applies IFS word splitting, while quoted words are kept as single elements. Closes #969
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arr=($x)now correctly word-splits unquoted variable expansions into multiple elementsarr=("a b")) are kept as single elementsexpand_word_to_fieldsfor proper IFS-based splittingWhy
x="hello world"; arr=($x)produced a single-element array instead of splitting into two elements. This is a standard bash pattern for creating arrays from whitespace-separated strings.Tests
unquoted_expansion_word_split_in_array,unquoted_expansion_custom_ifs_in_arrayCloses #969