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From: Joseph Wright <joseph.wright@MORNINGSTAR2.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: xparse: read arg until EOL
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On 02/01/2011 10:10, Arno Trautmann wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I just thought it might be good to have an argument type that reads an
> argument until the end of line. That would be a special version of the u
> type, I think, but the normal user will not be able to specify it that
> way. (Also I'm not sure about different line endings in *nix and Windows.)
> Any comments?
>
> cheers,
> Arno
>

Hello Arno,

I have a feeling that this falls into the 'verbatim-like' category that 
can't really be handled by xparse. That I know of, you can't write a 
macro which is delimited by ^^M (end-of-line) without making catcode 
changes.

By the way, I assume that you have an application in mind?
-- 
Joseph Wright