Re: asterisks, dollar signs and percent signs!
"Jack J. Woehr" <[email protected]>
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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
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A name is any sequence of letters, digits, and the character `_'
(underscore), where the first character is not a digit.
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