[Omake] Re: splitting a string

[Jason Hickey]

David Kågedal wrote:
> Similar problems keeps coming back.  I have things like this
> 
>     API=1.0
>     ...
>     APISYM=$(subst .,_,$(API))
>     # APISYM is now 1_0
> 
> Simple string substituion functions like subst and patsubst in GNU
> Make are pretty hard to live without.  OMake only has the highly
> specialized replacesuffix, which is very useful where it applies.

I agree, and I've been putting together a more general set of functions. 
  I think we'll try to mirror some of these functions from GNU-make.

Jason

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