Thanks you for your response:
Tom Tromey wrote:
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> Jerome> I try to write a transportable AC_DEFUN:
> Jerome> I want to wrire simple substitution command as (in bash):
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> Jerome> $bb=${BB%%.*}
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> Jerome> Is there a more transportable way to do that ?
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> This is more of an autoconf question.
it is a type mistake.
> Generally the answer is "use sed".
> Do you really mean to assign to "$bb"? I'm suprised that works.
> In that case you might need sed+eval.
Can you please be more explicit/verbose ?
Thanks again,
Jerome
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> Tom
