Re: Process only sections of a file? (newbie)

Gary <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.m4.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Eric Blake wrote:
> On 09/15/2010 03:49 AM, Gary wrote:
>> Sorry if this is obviously documented somewhere, but I couldn't find it
>> (or perhaps found it and didn't understand it...).
>>
>> What I would like to do is only have m4 process certain sections of a
>> file delimited by some given sequence (in my case outside<?php ... ?>
>> tags). Is that possible?
>
> changecom(`<?php', `?>') will treat all <?php...?> sequences as
> comments, and thus not do any m4 processing of that portion of the text.

Oh heck. TFM says "the first newline after a # ends the comment", so I
don't think I can use this.

I've got the problem that m4's include macro clashes with php's include
statement. Any ideas how I can get around it? Could I, say, tell m4 that
it should use #include instead of include?
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