<p dir="ltr">Maybe the set expression wasnt enclosed in apostrophes/quotes?</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jun 16, 2015 10:29, "westlake" <<a href="mailto:westlake2012@videotron.ca">westlake2012@videotron.ca</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I'm stumped on a little problem with syslog-ng, basically what I'm<br>
trying to do is extract text from a string and place that into a new macro,<br>
eg<br>
-> set($(substr ${MSG} 7 12), value("${MACRO");<br>
<br>
here the syntax checker stops short around the first dollar sign and i'm<br>
not sure how else I can apply this.<br>
<br>
thanks<br>
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