sections with listfile

Petr Skoda wrote on Apr 06, 2007

I want to use image sections with listfile and it does not work
Is it possible to do this or have I to go to cycle file by file ?

imcopy @tlist[-*,*], t//@tlist

complains : ERROR: Cannot open file tlist%%

when using

 imcopy @tlist//[-*,*], t//@tlist

works but the section is ignored

The same with command sections

sections "@tlist//[-*,*]" 

apl07008.fit
apl07013.fit

But if not using the section in appends, it works:

sections "@tlist//ppp"

apl07008ppp.fit
apl07013ppp.fit

The version with section works without concatenation mark, but only for templates without listfile:

sections apl*.fit[-*,*]

apl07008.fit[-*,*]
apl07013.fit[-*,*]

Is it a bug or feature ;-) ?

Petr Skoda

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Mike Fitzpatrick wrote on Apr 06, 2007

Hi Petr,

Not quite a bug or a feature, more like a strange interaction between two interfaces. The image template code is based on the more general file template code, except that the stuff in the braces is stripped/saved and the rest is passed to the file template for expansion. The @file syntax is a special case in the file template and doesn't interact well in some expressions.

In any case, to get the behavior you want you need to do the escape in a completely non-intuitive manner, e.g.

cl> sections @tlist//\[\-\*\,\*]

Note that it's only the closing ']' that isn't escaped.

Cheers,
-Mike

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