sergio masci wrote:
>> I ended up writing an quick-and-dirty Python script after the original 
>> post,
>> that does the above -- but surely there's got to be something 
>> off-the-shelf
>> that can be used for the same purpose?
>>
>> Vitaliy
>
> Yes you could still do this in M4. The input file "file1.c" would become
>
> file1.txt:
>     function TOKEN { Nop(); }
>
> and you would process file "file1.c" for every line of file "file2.txt"
> like this:
>
> patsubst(include(`cfile2.txt'), `\w+', `define(`TOKEN', `\&')
> include(`cfile1.txt')')
>
> you would write the above statement into a file such as file1.m4 then
> pass that to m4 as in:
>
> m4 file1.m4 >cfile1.c

This looks interesting, pretty easy to figure out what's going on. Did you 
mean to say "include('file1.txt')" on the second line? At the risk of 
getting RTFMed (it's 2 am, can barely type), what's the \& for? Lazy/greedy?

What other things do you find M4 to be useful for?

Vitaliy 

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