> Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Here's the question: is there any standard, preferably nicer, way of > > handling strings containing variables in shell or Perl scripts? > > Shellutils includes printf(1), and perl also has printf.
Oh, so obvious....
Julian
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Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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