Re: [PATCH v8 4/8] env: Allow U-Boot scripts to be placed in a .env file

Wolfgang Denk
2021-10-19T15:57:51Z

Dear Tom,

In message <20211019140711.GC7964@bill-the-cat> you wrote:
>
> As much as I and others appreciate that you've written the parser here
> in a classic UNIX tool, awk, since a lot of the problems also seem to
> stem from having the parser be able to handle previously valid
> environment variables, if this was written in Python say, would we have
> this problem?

A classic tool would be lex ...

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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