Ralph Corderoy <ra...@inputplus.co.uk> wrote (Thu, 06 Nov 2014 16:35:23 +0000): > Hi Holger, > > > .\" I found this for strings > > > > .ds c " > > .ds d " > > .if '\*c'foo' .ds d "bar > > .ie '\*d'bar' .tm *9: true > > .el .tm *9: false > > If you want to preserve d's value for later use then you're back to > using a temporary variable to track success so far. > > Cheers, Ralph.
Yes. Due to the 'Troff User's Manual' page 24 and the man 7 groff (missing a negation), the statement: .if 'str1'str2' anything cannot handle regular expressions or kinda glob-ing as patterns? Holger
