On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 04:34:19PM EST, Ronald J Kimball wrote: > On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 01:10:36PM -0800, Bob McElrath wrote: > > David Ellement [ellement@xxxxxxxxxx] wrote: > > > On 2004-01-25, Bob McElrath wrote > > > > This command should work: > > > > > > > > fcc-save-hook "~s (.*)" =`perl -e '$_="%s"; s/\[([A-Za-z0-9 > > > > _]+)\].*/$1/; print;'` > > > > > > > > but it does not. What about backtick evaluation is preventing this > > > > from working? > > > > > > Without single quotes around the backtick expression, the expression > > > will be evaluated at the time the line is parsed; within a hook, it is > > > likely that the intent is to defer evaluation until the hook is > > > activated. > > > > With single quotes it doesn't get evaluated at all. > > > > I wish this worked, but it does not: > > fcc-save-hook "~s (.*)" =$1 > > > > Note that this does work: > > fcc-save-hook "~s (.*)" =`echo %s` > > > > but fails when the RHS is more complicated. > > Does this work? > > fcc-save-hook "~s (.*)" =`perl -e > '$_=shift;s/\[([A-Za-z0-9_]+)\].*/$1/;print;' %s` > > Although I'm worried about what will happen when (.*) matches a string > containing metacharacters... Try this: fcc-save-hook '~s "(.*)"' ="`perl -e \'$_=shift;s/\[([A-Za-z0-9_]+)\].*/$1/;print;\' %s`" - Dave -- Uncle Cosmo, why do they call this a word processor? It's simple, Skyler. You've seen what food processors do to food, right? Please visit this link: http://rotter.net/israel
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