Re: [Help-bash] bash way of variable substitution

[Phil Dobbin]

On 08/02/18 15:28, Peng Yu wrote:

>>> It's 10,000 lines of C but this is how substitution is implemented in Bash.
> 
> It is too long for me to understand. And because it does more than my
> specification in the original email, most of the code probably is not
> relevant to my spec.
> 
> For my spec, is my implementation a reasonable replication of what is
> implemented in bash?
> 
>> The Springsteen quote at the top of the file still applies.
> 
> I am not sure what you refer to.

at the top of the file is a line from one of Bruce Springsteen's songs
[1]. It's nestled in the comments.

Cheers,

  Phil.

[1] the song is 'Thunder Road' I believe...
-- 
The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new
   Murphy by Samuel Beckett

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