http://snipplr.com/language/make/tags/search Recent snippets posted on Snipplr.com en-us Mon, 20 May 2013 13:22:59 GMT http://snipplr.com/view/26103/search-for-or-replace-spaces/ Make (and GMake) ignore spaces in many constructs, making it difficult to use a single space as a search string or a replacement string, for example. This trick works around the problem by assigning the space to a variable named SPACE and using that instead. So given this makefile: NOTHING:= SPACE:=$(NOTHING) $(NOTHING) NAME_WITH_UNDERSCORES:=$(subst $(SPACE),_,$(NAME)) print : ; @echo $(NAME_WITH_UNDERSCORES) The command gmake NAME="Professor Hubert Farnsworth" would print Professor_Hubert_Farnsworth

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