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From: sdf@abcom.ATT.COM (6362 Two Gateway Center Newark)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: cpp - the C language preprocessor
Summary: Try using the backslash
Keywords: cpp
Message-ID: <6077@abcom.ATT.COM>
Date: 27 Jul 88 11:51:33 GMT
References: <173@trevan.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T, Aurora, Colorado
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In article <173@trevan.UUCP>, trevor@trevan.UUCP writes:
> 
> 	Please can someone tell me how I can use the -D option to define
> a name with a space in it ie 
> 
> #define fred xxxx yyyy
> 
> 	I have tried alot of combinations like -Dfred='xxxx yyyy' but
> nothing seems to work. This is using Microport System V/286.

I tried the above on an Amdahl running UTS and it worked fine. In your case,
try escaping the space with a backslash, as in:

			-Dfred='xxxx\ yyyy'

The backslash will (or should) treat the space as a literal part of the
string.


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Stephen Fried
AT&T
Newark, NJ
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