Menu{Master,Maestro,etc} question(s)

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On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 04:37:40PM -0400, Jay Ashworth may or may not have
proven themselves an utter git by pronouncing:
> (Off-list replies are fine if you don't want to divulge; I'm just trying
> to decide whether the effort of reimplementing it is worthwhile. (And
> yes, I know, we've had the "is it worth investing time in commercial
> products for the filePro audience" conversation before, as well as how it
> came out; let's skip the meta :-).))

*skips*  :)

> ========
> # mmreplace - use perl to fake a MenuMaster :replace: command
> #
> # written Tue May  8 16:23:19 EDT 2007 by jra at microsys.us
> 
> [ $# = 3 ] ||
>         {
>         echo "usage: $0 filename line-label replacement
>         exit 1
>         }
> 
> # the regex ahead is:
> #
> # label:if:var="contents"  :
> # ''''','','''','''''''','',
> # \1    \2 \3   \4       \5
> 
> perl -pi.bak -e "
>         if (/^$2:/)
>           s/([^:]):([^:]):([^\"])\"([^\"])\"([^:]):/\1:\2:\3\"$3\"\5:/;" $1
> ========
> 
> 
> If that's *correct* (I'm not a perlmonk), anyone who finds themselves in a
> similar situation is welcome to it.  If it's *broken*, corrections would
> be appreciated.

I'd have to see an illustration of what the functionality you're trying to
implement actually is to know if it's right or not.

mark->
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