Re: asterisks, dollar signs and percent signs!

"Jack J. Woehr" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.m4.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Anonymous wrote:
> This works as desired except I want to change the macro names to $entry and
> $exit.

An m4 macro name cannot contain a dollar sign ("$").

    File: m4.info,  Node: Names,  Next: Quoted strings,  Up: Syntax

    3.1 Macro names
    ===============

    A name is any sequence of letters, digits, and the character `_'
    (underscore), where the first character is not a digit.

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