> Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 16:57:28 -0700 > From: eblake@xxxxxxxxxx > To: dale.visser@xxxxxxxx; autoconf@xxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Recommended way to truncate a shell variable value in autoconf > > 'string : regexp' is portable. 'match string regexp' is not. For > example this use of expr is already present in pretty much any configure > file generated by modern autoconf: > > as_echo_body='eval expr "X$1" : "X\\(.*\\)"' Good. I think I have settled on this, but will go back to the expr solution if you think that would be better: X=`echo "$X" | sed 's/ .*// ' | sed 's/,.*//'` By the way, thank you for all your help. :-) _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
