help with a macro

[D'Arcy J.M. Cain]

In article <595 at afc-tci.UUCP> joubert at 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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