Ksh is throwing an extra element into an array in RHEL5

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

Getting an extra element in an array when using ksh in RHEL5.4

Appears to occur with at least the following versions of the ksh package:
20080202-14.el5
20080202-2.el5

pdksh does not exhibit the same problem, nor does ksh on Solaris 10, ksh88 on AIX, or ksh93 on AIX

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL)

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