Re: [Boost-build] SHELL and trailing newlines

From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-10-05 11:22:08

Vladimir Prus wrote:
> On Thursday 05 October 2006 18:44, Rene Rivera wrote:

>> local xs = [ MATCH "([^
>> ]*)" : $(x) ] ;
> 
> Will this match \r, \n, both, or an arbitrary combination thereof? There's no 
> reason to expect SHELL runs on Unix only ;-)
> 
> Devil's advocate for this evening,

:-)

It will match whatever the EOL is on the platform, i.e. \n in C terms. 
Of course that assumes the file it's in is correctly translated to the 
platform.

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