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m4: Text handling

 
 11 Macros for text handling
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 There are a number of builtins in 'm4' for manipulating text in various
 ways, extracting substrings, searching, substituting, and so on.
 

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· Len                         Calculating length of strings
· Index macro                 Searching for substrings
· Regexp                      Searching for regular expressions
· Substr                      Extracting substrings
· Translit                    Translating characters
· Patsubst                    Substituting text by regular expression
· Format                      Formatting strings (printf-like)
 

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