Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 23:30:08 +1300 From: Joe Abley <jabley@clear.co.nz> To: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, jabley@clear.co.nz Subject: Re: FICL and setting BTX variables Message-ID: <19990112233008.A81635@clear.co.nz> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9901121005501.15079-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>; from Andrzej Bialecki on Tue, Jan 12, 1999 at 10:13:55AM %2B0100 References: <19990112155325.A32880@clear.co.nz> <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9901121005501.15079-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>
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On Tue, Jan 12, 1999 at 10:13:55AM +0100, Andrzej Bialecki wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Joe Abley wrote:
>
> > # some general early substitutions
> > {
> > gsub("\t", " "); # replace each tab with 4 spaces
>
> Mhm.. I'm not sure. One of the goals here is also to make the resulting
> string as short as possible, because it directly influences the size of
> /boot/loader later. The string doesn't have to be nicely formatted, it
> just has to compile. So, I'd suggest gsub("\t"," ");
I was just copying what the perl version did :) I'm not sure what the idea
was either...
.. also, why are we bothering to split the input file with \n's within the
string? Does the FICL parser have a maximum line length? Or does it just
deal in tokens, and not care about linefeeds at all?
If the latter we could save more space by compressing every occurrance
of [[:blank:]]+ to " ", and omitting the newlines.
> Otherwise, I like it.
Thanks :)
Joe
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