"Schlueter, Michael" <Schlueter at secunet.de>
Hi,
I just found out that the perforce keyword expansion even replaces the
keywords normal c++ constant strings. It took me quite while to find out
that somewhere in a parser syntax definition a $date$ was replaced by the
current date. Is this a bug or feature?
It's a feature, usually used like this:
const char ident[] = "$Id$";
Many unix machines have a program called 'ident' that will print the
version strings that went into a linked executable.
Is there a way to avoid this?
Not short of turning off keyword expansion. Perforce doesn't know c++
syntax (or that of any other language, AFAIK).
I have been troubled by it a few times. ISTR I once had a function that
searched for "$Id$" and of course that function's search string got
changed. But it's never been very difficult to work around the problem.
If you're using plain C++, maybe you can use the preprocessor's string
concatenation: "$Da" "te$" is the same as "$Date$".
--Arnt
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