Dollar expansion (Was: Registry editor)

[Chris Howells]

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On Sunday 28 April 2002 5:33 am, Waldo Bastian wrote:

> you can now use
> 	hostname[$e]=$HOSTNAME
>
> And $HOSTNAME will be expanded at runtime.

Wow!

I'm just wondering for e.g. KMail -- if it wanted to grab the real name out of 
/etc/passwd -- e.g. the "Chris Howells" in the following line:

chris:x:1000:1000:Chris Howells,,,:/home/chris:/bin/bash

Is there anyway to do that via KConfig? Or would you need to write some kind 
of scrip to extract the name, stick it into a shell variable, and then get 
the variable expanded as you described above?

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Cheers, Chris Howells -- chris at chrishowells.co.uk, howells at kde.org
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