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[Mario V Nigrovic]

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Description:
        It would be nice to be able to put multiple substitution
        expressions into a single expansion.  This may be impossible,
        but then I won't know if I don't ask.

        It seems syntatically logical to be able to use extra { and }
        to allow a variable expansion to be parsed multiply.  This
        could quickly get confusing, though.  Anyway, say I want to
        chop both the path and the extension off a filename:

        file=/tmp/this/path/is/long/to/file.txt

        It seems logical to be able to use

        ${{file##*/}%.*}

        rather than resorting to intermediate variables:

        temp=${file##*/}
        ${temp%.*}

        This is primarily valuable when used in a for expression,
        where you currently only get one expansion on the iteration
        list.

        Thanks,

             Mario