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<DEFINEVAR>
variable-name
value ...
</DEFINEVAR>
-definevar
variable-specification-list
DEFINEVAR is used for creating user-defined resource variables. DEFINEVAR can be defined on the command-line or in the resource file.
On the command-line, the option is called -definevar
The following argument after -definevar
is treated as a variable specification list. The specification list
is a string containing name/value pairs with the following format:
NAME=
VALUE
Multiple name/value pairs are separated
by whitespace.
If VALUE contains whitespace, then it must be surrounded
by quotes to prevent the command shell from treating the string
as multiple arguments.
Multiple -definevar
options can be specified on the
command-line. This can help reduce the ugliness of specify mutliple
variable definitions with a single option.
NOTE: | If you intend to include resource variables as part of the VALUE, you may need to escape the '$' characters (and possible other characters) to prevent interpolation by the command shell. See your command shell documentation for more information. |
In a resource file the <DEFINEVAR> element may occur mutliple times to define multiple variables. The first line of the <DEFINEVAR> element is the name of the variables. All subsequent lines represent the content of the variable. If you do not want the last newline of a <DEFINEVAR> element content to be part of the defined variable content, then specify the chop attribute.
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The following is a simple example of defining a variable to represent the base text for the title of an archive:
<DefineVar chop> MAIN-TITLE Comp.lang.perl.misc </DefineVar>
Now, the variable can be refernced as follows:
<TTitle chop> $MAIN-TITLE$ (thread) </TTitle>
If you wanted to use the same resource file for multiple arcvhives
it may better to define $MAIN-TITLE$
on the command-line
as follows:
prompt> mhonarc -definevar MAIN-TITLE='mhonarc mailing list' ... |
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