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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: am_edit magic
From:       Stephan Kulow <coolo () kde ! org>
Date:       2000-03-19 9:43:36
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David Faure wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 08:40:32PM +0100, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> > What you had to do is to add a little grep and sed on the toplevel Makefile
> > to add a third case "compile last". But then I would suggest to make it more
> > general and introduce a COMPILE_FIRST too
> 
> I'm in the process of doing this, but I get stuck by the way
> case works:
> 
> echo First test
> case blah in
> (abc|blah|des) echo ok;;
> *) echo ko;;
> esac;
> 
> echo Second test
> b='(abc|blah|des)';
> case blah in
> $b) echo ok ;;
> *) echo ko;;
> esac;
> 
> This gives ok but then ko....
> 
> Any other way to use a variable in a case statement ?
> 
Well, in C you can't use variables as switch label either.
I wouldn't be suprised if that goes for shell too.

Greetings, Stephan

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