Keith MARSHALL <keith.marshall@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Jules Colding wrote: >> I'm wondering why I keep seeing the >> >> if test "xSTRING1" = "xSTRING2" ... > > The common idiom is `if test x$foo = xbar ...', and the `x' is > a placeholder, in case $foo happens to expand to nothing. If $foo happens to expand to multiple words this will fail as well. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@xxxxxxx SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
