On Fri, 25 Mar 2022, Markus Elfring wrote:

> Hello,
>
> The metavariable type “constant” is supported by the semantic patch language.
> Thus some data processing can be performed for literals.
>
> I would appreciate the support for metavariable types which will match only
> string literals.
> https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/language/string_literal

constant char[] x; ?

julia


>
> I guess that such a kind of metavariable would include also the enclosing
> quotation characters.
> But if captured data should be passed for further processing to another
> scripting language, it would occasionally be more helpful to omit the double
> quotes there.
> Additional programming interfaces can also help to handle data parts better,
> can't they?
>
> Would you like to work with another metavariable variant for this purpose?
>
> How will the chances evolve to extend the Coccinelle software accordingly?
>
> Regards,
> Markus
>
>