Re: Autoconf --trace

[Akim Demaille]

| On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 10:37:29AM +0100, Akim Demaille wrote:
| : In fact, can someone teach me (point me to a good example) how to
| : split strings such as
| : 
| : list="'first element' 'second' 'third one'"
| : for elt in $list
| 
| I managed to make this work:
| 
| eval set $list
| while test $# -gt 0; do
|   echo $1
|   shift
| done
| | first element
| | second
| | third one

Excellent, thanks!  I think this is the best means to handle the list
here.

        Akim