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From: bruno@sdcc10.ucsd.edu (Bruce W. Mohler)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: ANSI CPP string concatenation
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Date: 21 Jun 91 16:01:33 GMT
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In article <FISCHER.91Jun20221733@galilei.iesd.auc.dk> fischer@iesd.auc.dk (Lars P. Fischer) writes:
 >>>>>> On 19 Jun 91, nigel@cnw01.storesys.coles.oz.au (Nigel Harwood) said:
 >
 >Nigel> Does anyone know if you can append strings in ANSI C.
 >
 >"The preprocessor operator ## provides a way to concatenate actual
 > arguments during macro expansion. [...]
 >
 >   #define paste(front, back) front ## back"
 >
 >	- Kernighan & Ritchie: The C Programming Language, 2.ed, p.90
 >
 >Found by looking up "concatenate" in the index.
 >
 >RTFM.
 >
 >/Lars
 >--
 >Lars Fischer,  fischer@iesd.auc.dk   | It takes an uncommon mind to think of
 >CS Dept., Univ. of Aalborg, DENMARK. | these things.  -- Calvin

What options do I have if my preprocessor does not support "##"?
I've tried having the 2 strings sandwiched between empty comments
("/**/").

Any suggestions?

Bruce

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