Re: how to write a general rule

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joerg Beyer" <j.beyer-S0/[email protected]>

> Dear Listreader,
> 
> I am not sure, how to write a generell aap-rule. I have a
> inputfile x.in that sould be transformed to x.out. For the
> sake of simplicity let's assume that the tranformation is
> a sed step.
> 
> So I have this aap rule:
> 
> ------------------
> x.out : x.in
>         :sys sed -e "s,e,X,g" <$source  >$target
> ------------------
> 
> This works fine. Now my question: how do I generalize
> this rule for file x.in to any file that ends with a ".in"?
> 
> 
>     Joerg
> 
> @bram: I cant find this in the manual, but I will make up
> a documented example for the documentation - if you like.

Are you sure about this? Have you looked at this page:

http://www.a-a-p.org/exec/user-filetype.html

and maybe also

http://www.a-a-p.org/exec/user-language.html

Also, look at the commands :action, :do, :rule and :route.

Lars Ivar Igesund


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