On Jun 26, 2014, at 10:02 PM, Brandon Allbery <allber...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 10:53 PM, Mark Brethen <mark.bret...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have tried using reinplace to insert a comment in a line but keep getting
> an error:
>
> reinplace -E "s|^LIBS=\$sim_ac_uniqued_list$|\#
> LIBS=\$sim_ac_uniqued_list|g" \
> ${worksrcpath}/configure
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> Including the error is usually helpful.
>
> At a guess, though, what you're doing wrong is using double quotes. Tcl is
> converting \$ to $ and \# to #, then you get a regex error because you have
> an end anchor not at the end; it may also be trying to expand the $| and
> failing because it's an illegal Tcl variable name.
>
> In Tcl, you need to enclose things in braces {...} to protect them from
> expansion. Otherwise, you'll need extra backslashes (\$ becomes \\\$, \#
> becomes \\\#, $ becomes \$).
>
> --
> brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates
> allber...@gmail.com ballb...@sinenomine.net
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That was it, the brackets worked! However, I'm still having issues with SoQt.
Mark
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