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From: darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Subject: Re: help with a macro
Message-ID: <1991May11.230658.29947@druid.uucp>
Organization: D'Arcy Cain Consulting, West Hill, Ontario
References: <595@afc-tci.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 11 May 91 23:06:58 GMT

In article <595@afc-tci.UUCP> joubert@afc-tci.UUCP (Joubert Berger) writes:
>I want to define a macro, lets call it UNDERLINE that would take a string
>as a parameter.  This macro should add some characters in front and behind
>the string.  Is this possible?
>	fprintf(f, "%s\n", UNDERLINE("test"));
>Am I asking to much of the preprocessor?

Not at all.  Here is the macro

#define   UNDERLINE(x)  "pre string" x "post string"

Note that this only works with string constants but you knew that.

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