Re: multiline output variables.

[Paul Eggert]

Dan Manthey <address@hidden> writes:

   ac_eof=
   while grep "^CEOF$ac_eof\$" conf$$subs.sed >/dev/null 2>&1; do
     ac_eof=`expr $ac_eof'0' / 10 + 1`
   done

How about something like this instead?  It makes only one pass over
the data and should be O(N log N) rather than O(N**2):

ac_eof=`sed -n '/^CEOF[0-9]*$/s/CEOF//p' conf$$subs.sed | sort -nru | sed 1q`
ac_eof=`expr 0$ac_eof + 1`


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> to review and handle as they see fit.

Please let us know when that's done, preferably by resubmitting your
patch to address@hidden  Thanks for your work.