I did start there. Some how the $'…' is not recognizing the \b as backspace character to start/end bolding.
It is a quoting problem and I don't see where I'm going wrong. I've not used the $'…' quoting mechanism before. USAGE=$' ... \bipsum\b '\b'dolor'\b' ... ' produces ... \bipsum\b bdolorb ... On 7 Feb 2010, at 20:26 , Andrew Clarke wrote: >> >> USAGE=$' >> ... >> [+DESCRIPTION?'\b'Lorem ipsum'\b'dolor '$\b'sit amet'$\b', > > Ummm, forgive me if I'm making a fool of myself, but why the use of '\b' in > there? shouldn't it be > >> [+DESCRIPTION?\bLorem ipsum\bdolor \bsit amet\b, > > etc etc etc? Looks like you're taking David's words literally and embedding > '\b' when you should just embed \b > > Each of those single-quotes will be taking you out of string mode, adding b > to > the command line, then going back into ordinary string mode, not into $' > string mode. > > > _______________________________________________ ast-users mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.research.att.com/mailman/listinfo/ast-users
