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Re: Cannot insert sharps
From: |
Gary V. Vaughan |
Subject: |
Re: Cannot insert sharps |
Date: |
Thu, 30 Sep 2004 11:41:40 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (X11/20040913) |
Hi Matthieu,
Matthieu Pupat wrote:
> I try a simple macro that prepone a sharp (#) before names beginning
> with i or o and quoting other names :
>
> define(`QuoteVariable', `ifelse(substr($1,0,1), i, #$1,
> ifelse(substr($1,0,1), o, #$1, "$1" ) ) ')
[...]
> Is this a bug ?
Nope, your macro is underquoted so the # is treated as a comment as the
macro expansion stack unwinds.
> What can I do to get rid of this ?
Add more quotes! I haven't tested this, but something more like this
should give you more success:
define(`QuoteVariable',
`ifelse(`substr(`$1', 0, 1)', `i', `#$1',
`ifelse(`substr(`$1', 0, 1)', `o', `#$1', `"$1"')')')
However, you could do the same thing much more easily with the patsubst
macro (if you quote it correctly!).
Cheers,
Gary.
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