Re: Feature Request: scanf-like parsing

[pepa65]

On 23/01/2021 00.55, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> People just have a deep, almost religious, loathing
> against creating their own temp files.
> 
> And yet, these same people are *perfectly* happy if some tool creates
> a temp file for them -- as long as they don't have to see any of the
> details or do any of the work.

Yes, a temp file on a virtual filesystem in memory would work. I think
the idea is to stay in RAM. But to then get it into a variable, you'd
have to use mapfile, and then get the array to be in a single variable.
There are quite a number of operations here that could be elided by some
elegant syntactic sugar to the benefit of all.

Peter