From: Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 17:11:31 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: * libm4.m4 (m4_noquote): New macro.
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* libm4.m4 (m4_noquote): New macro.
---

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 2127ab7af..ad940e1ea 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2000-03-02  Lars J. Aas  <larsa@sim.no>
+
+	* libm4.m4 (m4_noquote): New macro.
+
 2000-03-02  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>
 
 	* acspecific.m4 (AC_PATH_X_DIRECT): Moved all the shell variable
diff --git a/THANKS b/THANKS
index 80218e177..f1b5168bb 100644
--- a/THANKS
+++ b/THANKS
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ Ken Raeburn		raeburn@cygnus.com
 Koji Arai		JCA02266@nifty.ne.jp
 Kurt D. Zeilenga	kurt@openldap.org
 Larry Schwimmer		rosebud@cyclone.stanford.edu
+Lars J. Aas		larsa@sim.no
 Lars Hecking		lhecking@nmrc.ucc.ie
 Marcus Daniels		marcus@sysc.pdx.edu
 Marcus Thiessel		marcus@xemacs.org
diff --git a/libm4.m4 b/libm4.m4
index fbf98f7d2..ef435a340 100644
--- a/libm4.m4
+++ b/libm4.m4
@@ -473,6 +473,16 @@ define(_m4_foreach,
 define([m4_quote], [[$@]])
 
 
+# m4_noquote(STRING)
+# ------------------
+# Return the result of ignoring all quotes in STRING and invoking the
+# macros it contains.  Amongst other things useful for enabling macro
+# invocations inside strings with [] blocks (for instance regexps and
+# help-strings).
+define([m4_noquote],
+[changequote(-=<{,}>=-)$1-=<{}>=-changequote([,])])
+
+
 # m4_split(STRING, [REGEXP])
 # --------------------------
 #