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Re: indirection as an lvalue
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Bill Gradwohl |
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Re: indirection as an lvalue |
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Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:07:42 -0600 |
On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 19:54 +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Use eval.
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> eval $x=\${makeTempFileName}
After you mentioned it, I remembered reading about eval a long time ago
and couldn't understand what it was good for. Now I know. Thank You.
Why the backslash before the $ ?
I tried it with and without and it doesn't appear to make a difference.
You must have something up your sleeve by using it.
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Bill Gradwohl
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