Den 2021-06-23 kl. 21:48 skrev Wim Stockman:
> Is there a function in groff to find the position of a char in a string.
> So I can split a string into more than one.
> I found the substring function that can cut based on length. If I could my
> marker in the string I could cut it there.
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Hi Dave,
Dave Kemper wrote on Mon, Jul 05, 2021 at 08:36:56AM -0500:
> On 7/3/21, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
>> These are all fair points and I will chew on them, and would like to
>> solicit the views of others on this as well.
> I agree with Ingo's point that the document author is in the bes
> > echo ".ds head-str ${str: -1}"
> The compatible syntax is ${str:-1}.
I wonder if that is meant, though.
Bash also has
${parameter:offset}
${parameter:offset:length}
Substring Expansion. Expands to up to length characters of
the value of parameter starting at the character spe
On 6/26/21, Wim Stockman wrote:
> Maybe the groff maintainers could include these macros to the
> manual. Because they contain some nice idiomatic features.
These would be great candidates for the groff-examples repository that
I keep trying to trick someone into creating and maintaining
(http:/
On 7/3/21, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> These are all fair points and I will chew on them, and would like to
> solicit the views of others on this as well.
I agree with Ingo's point that the document author is in the best
position to know which language-specific macro package is required to
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