number

Selects the numberth element of the value.

>string

Appends string to each element.

<string

Prepends string to each element.

from=to

Substitutes occurrences of from with to. If from does not appear in an element, the element is not changed.

*F or *

Each element is a wildcard spec evaluating to a list of files.

*D

Each element is a wildcard spec evaluating to a list of directories.

@

Includes element as a text file.

@/from/to/

Includes lines in text file, matching lines with regex from and replacing the matched part of the line with regex to.

A/

Converts element to an absolute file name using path separator /.

A\

Converts element to an absolute file name using path separator \.

A

Converts element to an absolute file name using the default path separator \.

B

Selects the base part of the element.

D

Selects the directory part of the element.

E

Selects the extension part of the element.

F

Selects the file part of the element.

LC

Converts the element to lowercase.

Mregex

Chooses elements that match regular expression regex.

M"spec"

Chooses elements that match file specification spec.

Nregex

Chooses elements that do not match regular expression regex.

N"spec"

Chooses elements that do not match file specification spec.

P

Selects the path part of the element.

R

Selects the root part of the element

S/from/to/

Substitutes from (a regular expression) to to. If from does not match an element, the element is not changed

UC

Converts the element to uppercase.

Wstr

Replaces white space between macro elements with str.

X

Replaces element names with pathnames using the search directories.

Z

Selects the drive part of the element.