Jules Colding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I'm wondering why I keep seeing the > > if test "xSTRING1" = "xSTRING2"; then > else > fi > > construction when you want to compare the strings STRING1 and STRING2.
This avoids any spurious interpretation as an operator if either string might start with a dash. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
