Re: [Boost-build] SHELL and trailing newlines

From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-10-05 13:00:39

Johan Nilsson wrote:
> "Rene Rivera" <grafikrobot_at_[hidden]> skrev i meddelandet 
> news:45251A43.8030003_at_gmail.com...
>> Johan Nilsson wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
>>> It looks like MATCH doesn't support multi-line mode. In the BJam docs it
>>> states that the MATCH regex should be an egrep pattern, and that doesn't
>>> include \n.
>> Well it does, or can be made to, in the always entertaining bjam way of
>> having flexible string values. This should work (famous last words):
>>
>> local xs = [ MATCH "([^
>> ]*)" : $(x) ] ;
>>
> 
> I've already tried a variant of the "physical newline declaration" trick 
> under Windows, but couldn't get it to work properly. Perhaps it is possible 
> to make it work, but I gave up after a couple of attempts.

Seems to work for me...

====
C:\Documents and Settings\grafik>bjam -f -
nl = "
" ;
o = "one two three
" ;
xs = [ MATCH "([^
]*)" : $(o) ] ;
ECHO *$(xs)* ;
^Z
*one two three*
don't know how to make all
...found 1 target...
...can't find 1 target...

C:\Documents and Settings\grafik>
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