2012/1/7 Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org>: > I'd just go for something like this: > > _pkgver=2.0.1-BETA1 > pkgver=2.0.1beta1 > > No need for all that fancy stuff... I'd go for that too. But I find these little challenges very funny, and I wondered if it was possible without adding another variable :) bardo