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Re: Impossible to do this in make :-(
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Paul Smith |
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Re: Impossible to do this in make :-( |
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Wed, 05 Feb 2014 14:03:25 -0500 |
On Wed, 2014-02-05 at 10:55 -0800, Rakesh Sharma wrote:
> Wanted to do a lowercase => uppercase conversion so wrote this (picked
> from stackoverflow)
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> lc = $(subst a,A,$(subst b,B,$(subst c,C,.....,$(subst z,Z,$1))....)
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> As is, the above works. But I wanted to bring in "eval" here to avoid
> typing this whole thing.😎
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> But to my utter surprise & then dismay, I found it impossible to write
> the RHS in any manner amenable to be eval-ed.
Go get GMSL and be amazed and gratified:
http://gmsl.sourceforge.net/