>>>>> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> I have implemented support for $.@, which is [$1].[$2]. etc. (`.'
>> is the separator, defaults to comma), and for $.*, which is
>> smash($1).smash($2). etc., where `.' defaults to `:', and `smash'
>> singles out all the white spaces.
Alexandre> Amazing. Truly amazing. Great work :-)
Nah, you great seducer, you know how to talk to m4 programmers :)
I was also thinking of something like ${::::}@ and the like, this
would allow to use something way simpler than balanced [ ] to parse
these guys. I guess one can split() in Perl with a separator such as
`:::::'?
>> Bwahaha :) So I think we will be able to start using this in
>> Automake, no?
Alexandre> Most definitely :-)
yeah, great :)
>> PS/ Beware there is a literal ^Q in it, which you need if you want
>> this to work properly. BTW, is it normal that bash does not split
>> around ^A? I found nothing like this in the doc:
Alexandre> I don't think it's good practice to embed such weird
Alexandre> characters in shell scripts. I'd rather expand the trace
Alexandre> commands into $trace_m4 as they come in.
I would like to avoid this because there are two cases for each
option: you have a --foo=bar or a --foo bar.
In fact, can someone teach me (point me to a good example) how to
split strings such as
list="'first element' 'second' 'third one'"
for elt in $list
How can we split that? That would make it simpler and better than ^Q.
Akim
