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sg has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Starting with a c-header file, foo.h, that has the line:
#define VERSION_STRING "Foo built Sun Dec 16 21:40:50 2007"
I would like to update the time-stamp portion of the line by issuing the command:
make version
I can write a perl script that makes the update, and have the command "make version" end up calling that script. I am wondering if there a way to in-line perl in the Makefile to achieve the same end?