Re: Expanding a macro within a string?

[Jack Woehr]

Paul Kirkaas wrote:

I want to do something like:

define(XXX,ZZZ)

then expand XXX within a string:

someXXXstring => someZZZstring

$ m4 -
define(XXX,ZZZ)

some`'XXX`'string
someZZZstring

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