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From: colonel@sunybcs.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: CTRL(x)
Message-ID: <1319@sunybcs.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 31-Oct-86 11:41:58 EST
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Posted: Fri Oct 31 11:41:58 1986
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) >But. . .is there a way to write an ANSI cpp version of
) >        #define CTRL(c)
) 
) I don't have an ANSI cpp handy (does anybody?), so I can't test
) this, but how about using the ANSI invention of # for "string-izing":
)         #define CTRL(c) (#c[0] & 037)

Not everybody has it.  What's wrong with this old trick?

	#define Q "
	#define CTRL(z) (Q z "[1]^0100)
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