Re: read shows surprising results

Richard Engebretson wrote:
> 
.... snip ...
> 
> Apparently, read has some tricky rules.

Not really.  The definition is:

   <var> := f^; get(f);

except for text to variable transformations.  My txtfiles unit will
give you examples of implementation.  

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