On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 12:13, Dill, John wrote: > I think we could expand on the [A-Z] idea, but we would need a custom > function to interpret a regex range item. We could code an ascii > numerical encoding to characters to form ranges. After all, [A-Z] is > really character 65 to 90. We could create a function which > translates [A-Z] into asc65 asc90 and generate indexes to index a list > of ascii characters to build using wordlist. I think it's possible to > generalize this [range] concept to a more general level.
I think if you really need it that much you'd find it quicker to patch function.c with a real $(tr FROM,TO,TEXT) function than try to implement all the things you are talking about with GNU Make. After all, the source of tr is available. John. -- John Graham-Cumming Home: http://www.jgc.org/ Work: http://www.electric-cloud.com/ POPFile: http://getpopfile.org/ _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
