Re: Newbie - having difficulty with a macro
John Christopher <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.gnu.m4.general |
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Thank you for replying.
I just noticed that if I change
m4_define(`MACRO1', `%d foo, bar %d')
to
m4_define(`MACRO1', `%d foo bar %d')
(remove the comma),
I get the following (desired) output:
3 foo bar 2
I could be wrong, but this seems like a bug,
unless there is something I don't understand
about the behavior of commas within a quoted
string.
--- On Sat, 11/1/08, Jack Woehr <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Jack Woehr <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: Newbie - having difficulty with a macro
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Date: Saturday, November 1, 2008, 4:37 AM
> John Christopher wrote:
> > I was expecting the output to be:
> > 3 foo, bar 2
> >
> > What am I doing wrong?
> > Thank you.
> >
> define(`m1',`%d foo, bar %d')
>
> format(m1, 3, 2)
> 0 foo
> define(`m1',`%d foo`,'bar %d')
>
> format(m1, 3, 2)
> 3 foo,bar 2
>
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