Re: Simple method of including a file that bypasses macro expansion
Eric Blake <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.gnu.m4.general |
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| Organization | Red Hat |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On 07/17/2011 01:15 AM, John Allsup (M4) wrote: > Hi, > > I am relatively new to m4, but can't seem to find an equivalent to include that > bypasses macro expansion. If you are okay with GNU extensions, then the 'undivert' macro is what you are looking for: http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/manual/m4.html#Undivert > > Suppose file 'a' contains > hello world > and file 'b' contains > goodbye world > and in my m4 I have defined > define(world,and). I'd recommend getting in the habit of using full quoting: define(`world', `and') > I a macro which I will call 'oinclude' such that > include(a) oinclude(b) > expands to > hello and goodbye world. include(`a') undivert(`b'). -- Eric Blake [email protected] +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org