Re: [avr-gcc-list] Strings: escape sequence to insert arbitrary hex value ?

[Vincent Trouilliez]

On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 15:18:44 +1030
"Daniel O'Connor" <address@hidden> wrote:

> You can define it like so..
> #define  LCD_CUSTOM_CHAR_FOO "\012"
> 
> then you can do..
> char example[] = "foo" LCD_CUSTOM_CHAR_FOO "bar";
> 
> You might be able to do something more clever but I don't know how :)


Thanks Daniel (and Ivan as well, off-list), that worked a treat ! :-)

Only drawback I found, is that I must now have TWO #defines for each and
every custom character: one #define to represent the character as a
string, so I can embed it into a string, and also all the #defines I
already had, which represent the actual numerical value, for when I
need to print an individual/discrete character rather than print a
string. It's not the end of the world, but not very elegant either, so
if anybody has a solution to make do with only one define per character,
I am all ears ;-)


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Vince