[p4] Variable substitution in client specs?

[Roy Smith]

I've been using p4 for about a year.  When we first started using it,  
the biggest stumbling block was the drudgery of creating client  
specs.  Now that I've been using it for a year, I still find creating  
clientspecs is a pain.  There's so much duplicated information.  Each  
time you create a branch, you need to create a new clientspec, which  
means taking an old one and doing a lot of editing.  Here's a simple  
example:

Client: dmt-dev-smithr3-7.2

Root:   /emc/smithr3/src/dmt-dev-smithr3-7.2

View:
         //depot/smarts/dmt/dev/smithr3/7.2/... //dmt-dev-smithr3-7.2/ 
smarts/...


The string "dmt-dev-smithr3-7.2" appears three times (and this is a  
trivial view; in a more typical view, it would appear many times).   
It would be so nice if I could do something like:


Client: dmt-dev-smithr3-7.2

Root:   /emc/smithr3/src/$client

View:
         //depot/smarts/$branch/... //$client/smarts/...

then whenever I needed to create a new branch, and a clientspec to go  
with it, I could just copy my template, change two lines, and be  
done.  Is there any way to do something like this?

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Roy Smith <smith_roy at emc.com>
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