Re: Expanding a macro within a string?
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.gnu.m4.general |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
That shall cause the expanded text (the empty string) to be reread. On Thu Sep 3 7:50 , 'R.K. Owen' [email protected]> sent: >You just need to break XXX from the surrounding text by putting >delimiters between the macro and the rest of the string with: > some`'XXX`'thing -> someZZZthing > >On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 7:36 AM, Paul [email protected]> wrote: >> Sorry, this seems like it must be covered in the docs, but I spent a few >> hours off & on searching, without luck. >> >> I want to do something like: >> >> define(XXX,ZZZ) >> >> then expand XXX within a string: >> >> someXXXstring => someZZZstring >> >> Obviously, XXX would require some kind of delimiter: >> >> some[XXX]string => someZZZstring. >> >> I managed to do half of what I want; >> >> defn(`XXX')string => ZZZstring >> >> Is there any way to get the full monty? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Paul >> >> >> > >