Hello m4 wizards,
My problem is passing a single parenthesis as a macro argument. I do
not understand m4 behavior; this tells me that I miss some fundamentals.
example 1: notice the litteral `('
index(`abcdef', `(')
this works perfectly with the expected results -1.
example 2: use of a mac
On 03/08/2018 03:29 PM, Denis Valois wrote:
Hello m4 wizards,
My problem is passing a single parenthesis as a macro argument. I do
not understand m4 behavior; this tells me that I miss some fundamentals.
example 1: notice the litteral `('
index(`abcdef', `(')
this works perfectly with th
Hello Eric,
Many thanks for your explanation. It makes sense and now the "defn"
versus double quoting approaches are clear.
Best regards,
Denis/
On 03/08/2018 10:58 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 03/08/2018 03:29 PM, Denis Valois wrote:
>> Hello m4 wizards,
>>
>> My problem is passing a single par
