Dollar expansion (Was: Registry editor)

[David Faure]

On Sunday 28 April 2002 06:33, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> On Saturday 27 April 2002 06:19 pm, Zack Rusin wrote:
> > The last one brings one important point, more
> > applications should use "setDollarExpansion" in the config in order to
> > make this tool really useable.
> 
> They all do since yesterday.
> 
> Just append [$e] (expand) to the key and $ENV_VARS will automatically be 
> expanded.
> 
> E.g. if you had:
> 	hostname=Wantelbos
> 
> you can now use
> 	hostname[$e]=$HOSTNAME
> 
> And $HOSTNAME will be expanded at runtime.

Wow, this is unbelieveably clever.
Kudos, Waldo.

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