Symbol expansion in body Parameter

[Volker Renneberg]

Hi!

While doing some @Filter testing I ran into the following problem. My 
original intention was to remove parts of the @Label part of a 
@Reference via a sed-command. I successfully created such a definition 
using the @Filter symbol:

def @CiteRemoveYear
   body @Body
   {
       def @Filter { sed "'s/\\(.*\\)[0-9]\\{4\\}[a-z]\\{0,1\\}/\\1/g'" 
@FilterIn > @FilterOut }
#        def @Filter { cat @FilterIn >> testoutputfile }
      
       @Body
   }

The following application
   @CiteRemoveYear { Haase et al. 2007f }
produces the correct output
   Haase et al.

However, applications of the following format
   @CiteRemoveYear address@hidden&&haase2004 @Open address@hidden
do not work. Some debugging (see above commented line in the @Filer 
definition) showed that the body argument to @CiteRemoveYear is not 
begin expanded. This means, the string "@Reference&&haase2004 @Open 
address@hidden" is being sent to sed and not the actual @Label content.

So my question is whether symbol expansion can be enforced in the body 
parameter.

Cheers
Volker

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Volker Renneberg, Dipl.-Inform. (univ.)
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