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From: ahuttune@niksula.hut.fi (Ari Juhani Huttunen)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Preprocessor question
Message-ID: <AHUTTUNE.91Feb16230548@silver-surfer.hut.fi>
Date: 16 Feb 91 22:05:48 GMT
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I would like to do the following or something similar:

#define BLOCK_SIZE 1024

char *message = "The block size is " # BLOCK_SIZE " bytes.";

I need the result: "The block size is 1024 bytes."

I know what I am doing wrong, but HOW should I do it? These alternatives
are no good:
	- #define BLOCK_SIZE_STRING "1024"
	- char *message = "The block size is 1024 bytes.";
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