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From: rjohnson@shell.com (Roy Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Question with cpp and token pasting
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Date: 31 Jan 91 17:18:21 GMT
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In-Reply-To: bringo@locus.com's message of 30 Jan 91 23:27:40 GMT

In article <1991Jan30.232740.1697267@locus.com> bringo@locus.com (Bob Ringo) writes:

>I'd like to do the following:

>#define A "Good"
>#define B "Morning"
>#define C>/* the concatenation of A and B */

In ANSI, you could just do

#define C A B

because juxtaposition concatenates strings.  In Sun C, there is
no good way to do this.
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