Re: Nifty hack

["Scott C. Gray" <gray@nas.nasa.gov>]

> Right now I am still fumbling a little bit with es's syntax (it is a bit 
> awkward).  So, my question is, is there a way to pull 'N', off of the '-N' 
> without execing a sub-process?  I was thinking it could be done by setting the 
> ifs to '-', but I can't quite seem to get it to do what I want.

Sorry to reply to my own mail message, but I figure it out:

   dir = -3
   index = <={%split - $dir}

This comes pretty close to what I want to do.

Thanks,
-scott
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