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Re: Quoted substitution
From: Ian Bell <ruffrecords@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon Dec 19 2005 - 15:53:59 CET
Date: Mon Dec 19 2005 - 15:53:59 CET
Bryan Oakley wrote:
> Ian Bell wrote:
>> Yes that works, but strangely if you :
>>
>> set $a 44
>> 44
>
> The above is not creating a variable named '$a'. It is doing
> substitution on $a before set is called. Thus, if the variable 'a'
> contains "foo", 'set $a "something"' is synonymous with 'set foo
> "something"'
>
Quite right. I think I finally have my head around this now.
Ian
Received on Fri Dec 23 19:02:10 2005