Re: awk comands inside m4 macros

[Chris Coleman]

Thankyou to all for the replies.

This makes musch more sense now.

Cheers
Chris

Paul Eggert wrote:

> Stepan Kasal <address@hidden> writes:
>
>  
>
> > I noticed that Paul Eggert uses '{print $ 1}'.
> >    
>
> Yes, I found that to be by far the best solution, as '$ 1' makes it
> clear that it's the Awk '$1' rather than the M4 '$1'.
>
> The $[1], [$]1, and $[]1 solutions are used when you're trying to
> quote the m4 '$1', and they work for Awk too, but it might confuse the
> reader into thinking that another level of M4 quoting might be
> involved.  (The @S|@1 solution is too ugly for words, of course.)
>
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