Hi Steffen, > But anyway, i wonder what you all think about instead introducing > > .if $'a'b'c'd'e'f'g'a'$ .tm matches > > i.e., by enclosing the expression in a pair of dollars the normal > delimiters can be used all through the case..esac string comparison > series.
Is there any point introducing new syntax for this one string-OR comparison wart. More thought, research, suggestions, discussion, needs to happen so that a good open-ended syntax for going forward is adopted. The coding is the easy bit. :-) Cheers, Ralph.