dash 0.5.6.1-1, setting IFS to tab, bug?

[peter kvillegard <peterkvillegard@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello, i'm new to all this but was encouraged to bring up an issue to
the dash mailing list.
It seems like setting the IFS for read to a tab does not work as it should.
For example: consider a testfile with the following content:

test1(space)test2(tab)test3

(where the "(space)" is an actual space etc)
then:

#!/bin/dash

cat testfile |
while IFS='  	' read col1 col2; do    #an actual tab
echo $col1
echo $col2
done

exit 0

it gives the output:

test1
test2 test3

because it seems to interpret the space as part of IFS?

i might be wrong though, but some other people reproduced the error on
various systems for the later versions of dash, so that's why im
writing to you.

regards

peter
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