Re: subst question

[Brendan Heading]

John Graham-Cumming writes: 

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> Brendan Heading wrote:
> > Another quick question. Does anyone know a way in GNU Make to filter off
> > the first instance only of a given string.
> > For example, at the moment I'm doing
> > $(subst lib,,libfoo.a)
> > which gives me "foo.a". However if I do :
> > $(subst lib,,libbarlib.a)
> > this also gives me "bar.a" even though what I need is "barlib.a".
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> Use patsubst: $(patsubst lib%,%,libbarlib.a) will give the result you
> are looking for.

Thanks everyone, that did exactly what I needed. 

Regards 

Brendan