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From: rolandi@sparc9.hri.com (Walter Rolandi)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.icon
Subject: passing variable patterns to egrep
Message-ID: <1990Jul5.204135.13202@hri.com>
Date: 5 Jul 90 20:41:35 GMT
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Reply-To: rolandi@sparc9.hri.com (Walter Rolandi)
Organization: Horizon Research
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can anyone suggest a way to pass variable patterns  to egrep via a
quoted  argument as in

system("egrep 'ABC[d.]'")

i would like to be able to assemble the 'ABC[d.]' type parts on the
fly and then push  them out to the system.

any ideas?

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