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From: bergquis@nms.gdc.portal.com (Brett Bergquist)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Need help with quoting and the CPP
Message-ID: <242@wimpy.nms.gdc.portal.com>
Date: 2 May 91 11:04:11 GMT
References: <9816@aspect.UUCP>
Organization: General DataComm, Middlebury CT
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In response to a question of how to surround a macro argument with
quotes even if the argument is itself a macro, using the non-ANSI CPP
that comes with SunOS 4.1, I received the following response:

]From gdc!uzlwg!zellweger.ch!eber Mon Apr 29 11:57:46 1991
]From: eber@zellweger.ch (Urs Eberle)
]To: nms!bergquis
]Subject: Re:  Need help with quoting and the CPP
]
]Hi Brett
]
]Your problem is easy to solve: do
]#define QUOTE(x) "\
]x\
]"
]
]That's all. Greetings from switzerland...
]==========================================================================
]Urs Eberle				"La mejor defensa contra la logica
]P.O Box 29				 es la ignorancia..."
]CH-8488 Turbenthal
]Switzerland
]
]Tel:	++41 19433514
]
]e-mail:	eber@zellweger.ch
]==========================================================================


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