On Sun, 22 Dec 2002, Marc Perkel wrote:
> I don't know if you know this or not but in your examples the white
> space in front of the expressions here become part of the string that is
> presented for sunstitution. On the third line of your example, the white
> space in front of The ${readfile is appended to the beginning of the
> expression. The indenting you use to (try to) make this look pretty is
> affecting the results.
I should have pointed that out. Sorry. I did remember to say the
continuations weren't there, and I thought the comment text was pretty
obvious. The layout I used was to try to explain how the item worked,
not to make it look pretty. It's hard to make this stuff look pretty. :-)
> >${sg{
> > ${readfile{/file}{|}}
> > }
> > {\\|(\\||\$)}
> > {$1}
> > }
Note, however, that leading whitespace *is* ignored after a
continuation. So if you write an option such as
xxx = ${sg{\
${readfile{/file}{|}}\
}\
{\\|(\\||\$)}\
{$1}\
}
The space in front of ${readfile would *not* be significant. I guess
that's why I didn't bother to mention this point.
--
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