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Re: Is it possible to expand macro just once?
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Wolf |
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Re: Is it possible to expand macro just once? |
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Tue, 13 Oct 2020 22:58:03 +0200 |
On 2020-10-12 07:24:22 -0500, Eric Blake wrote:
>
> In general, if the user is providing you text rather than something that
> should expand as a macro that needs further recursive interpretation, you
> should use defn() to get at that text:
>
> $ echo 'changequote([,])defn([foo])' | m4 -Dfoo=bar -Dbar=baz
> bar
>
> But keep in mind that defn does NOT perform any interpolation of $, which
> may introduce its own oddities if the user supplied a macro definition
> containing $ that you aren't expanding as a macro.
This works great, thanks a lot :)
W.
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