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Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 08:58:23 -0500
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To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] regexp metacharacter difficulty inside grap
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It's good to learn new things every day.  Grap strips the ')' out, no =
need for all that funny sh {} business:

		if "$1" =3D=3D "#" then {
			if "$2" =3D=3D "(Yo" then {
				print sprintf("Yo was %f", yo)
				yo =3D $3
				print sprintf("Yo is %f", yo)
			}
		}

success!

mk
Creating t.ps...
	Yo was 8.579000
	Yo is 4.953400
	Yo was 4.953400
	Yo is 4.953400
Creating t.pdf...


Now to find out why the fonts on Plan 9 create nice print outs but =
really awkward text inside of PDF files.  My theory is that gs is not =
stuffing all of the fonts in as it should.



On Aug 10, 2010, at 8:41 AM, Rudolf Sykora wrote:

> On 10 August 2010 15:10, Federico G. Benavento <benavento@gmail.com> =
wrote:
>> this is probably related to the fact that grap(1) is an APE program,
>> and sh actually execs sh, not rc...
>=20
> see this line:
>=20
>>>       rc: line 2: token ')': syntax error
>=20
> telling that rc is executed. As to why there is the syntax error, as I
> wrote couple of hours ago, the reason is that rc tries to execute
> /echo 23.45)/ which is syntactically wrong. What is wanted is /echo
> '23.45)'/, so that ')' is within aposrophes.
>=20
> R
>=20
>=20