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Re: [Groff] Is it possible to split macro arguments?


From: erich hoffmann
Subject: Re: [Groff] Is it possible to split macro arguments?
Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2011 18:08:14 +0200

Am Sat, 02 Jul 2011 15:56:59 +0100
schrieb Ralph Corderoy <address@hidden>:

> Hi Erich,
> 
> Ted wrote:
> > There is the request .substring which you could use to perform such
> > operations, provided you write the macro in terms of known
> > lengths/positions of substrings:
> 
> There's also .length to get the length of a string, so you could step
> through in a loop one character at a time.
> 
> Cheers, Ralph.
> 

After trying this I thought that the .substring request is closer to my
needs.  But I'm sure I'll use .length in another project.  Thanks for
the hint!

erich




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