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Re: Newbie - having difficulty with a macro


From: Jack Woehr
Subject: Re: Newbie - having difficulty with a macro
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 22:37:37 -0600
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John Christopher wrote:
I was expecting the output to be:
3 foo, bar 2

What am I doing wrong?
Thank you.
define(`m1',`%d foo, bar %d')

format(m1, 3, 2)
0 foo
define(`m1',`%d foo`,'bar %d')

format(m1, 3, 2)
3 foo,bar 2

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