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Quoting from the bash manual:=20

"If IFS has a value other than the default, then sequences of the =
whitespace characters *space and tab* are ignored at the beginning and =
end of the word, as long as the whitespace character is in the value of =
IFS (an IFS whitespace character)."

If this is true, then the following script

$ IFS=3D$'\n'
$ a=3D$'\n1\n2\n'
$ printf "%s\n" $a
1
2

should print <> <1> <2> 3 fields, but it doesn't.

So I guess *space and tab* should be replace by *space, tab and newline* =
in that section.=