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Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 08:29:54 +0200
From: lucio@proxima.alt.za
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Subject: Re: [9fans] new toy - gmap
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> Pick up the new code, it reads the key from /lib/gmapkey
> and gets the longditude and latitude the correct way round
> (as several people have told me.

I use:

lng=`{echo $here(2) | sed -e 's/^-(.*)/+\1/' -e 's/^([0-9])/-\1/'}

Because double negatives (--) don't seem to cut it in the URL :-)
I imagine there's a better way, but rc programming is not my strong
suit.  And I can't test now the simplification that drops the \1 from the first term.

I got caught by the fact that the space after -e is mandatory (why?)
and the first \1 belongs to me trying to figure out what I was doing
wrong.

++L