Re: character substitution loop and eval

[Paul D. Smith]

%% "Dill, John" <address@hidden> writes:

  dj> I have a problem I want to create a list of characters to pass to
  dj> a function which calls subst over that list.  I want to do
  dj> something like this.

  dj> my_chars:=1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

  dj> my-subst=$(eval temp_variable := $1)$(foreach iter,$(my_chars),$(eval 
temp_variable:=$(subst $(iter),,$(temp_variable))))$(temp_variable)

  dj> where my_chars could be simply $2.

Can you be a little more clear about this?

How would you call my-subst and what do you want the resulting expansion
to be?

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