On Sun, 2006-06-04 at 14:17 +0200, Chitlesh GOORAH wrote: > On 6/4/06, Ambrogio <fn050202 at flashnet.it> wrote: > > Probably the space in the first example is not a space, but some other > > not printable char. > > no it is a space. Have you been fiddling with the value of the IFS variable? Paul.