<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 5.5.2656.60"> <TITLE>RE : [Nagios-users] Re: On-Demand Macros issue</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> > From: Bryan Loniewski [<A HREF="mailto:brylon@jla.rutgers.edu">mailto:brylon@jla.rutgers.edu</A>] > > Would others find this useful if a patch is applied? > > > command_line $USER2$/foo $HOSTADDRESS:$ARG1$$ # Where > > $ARG1$=some_host_name Unfortunately, as the macro starting and ending tags are the same ($), I think that you cannot implement such an extension in an unambiguous way. Here is an example: If you get : $HOSTADDRESS:pre$ARG1$post$ It is impossible to choose between : ($HOSTADDRESS:pre$)ARG1($post$) And ($HOSTADDRESS:pre($ARG1$)post$) And it is still harder if you get something like '$HOSTADDRESS:pre$ARG1$ARG2$'. To conclude, unless you define some new tags for macro expansion, I think that this extension is not possible. And defining some new tags would bring many compatibility problems. </BODY> </HTML>