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List:       doxygen-users
Subject:    Re: [Doxygen-users] environment-variable access: bug or feature?
From:       Oliver Kullmann <O.Kullmann () swansea ! ac ! uk>
Date:       2007-07-19 18:50:41
Message-ID: 20070719185041.GB22575 () cs-wsok ! swansea ! ac ! uk
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On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 11:44:45PM +0200, Dimitri van Heesch wrote:
> On 7/7/07, Oliver Kullmann <O.Kullmann@swansea.ac.uk> wrote:
> >
> >Hello,
> >
> >by chance I found out that placing
> >an expression like
> >
> >$(PATH)
> >
> >in the doxygen-documentation of a C++ program (Linux)
> >results in expansion of this environment variable
> >in the created html-page (why by using
> >
> >"$(PATH)"
> >
> >this expansion is prohibited).
> >
> >Now this feature would be very useful for me, however I can't
> >find any word about it in the documentation?
> >
> >So I wonder whether this behaviour is intended, or it is more of
> >an accident?
> 
> 
> 
> The behaviour is indeed intended (I use it for the doxygen manual for
> instance),
> but I agree the documentation can be improved.
> 
> The $(ENV) feature is only documented rather indirectly here:
> http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/commands.html#cmddollar
> 

I see; good that it's a feature. It seems worth to me to say more about
it since it solves the fundamental problem of how to integrate configuration
data into the documentation.

thanks

Oliver


> Regards,
>  Dimitri

-- 
Dr. Oliver Kullmann
Computer Science Department
University of Wales Swansea
Faraday Building, Singleton Park
Swansea SA2 8PP, UK
http://cs-svr1.swan.ac.uk/~csoliver/


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