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

[Vincent Trouilliez]

On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 16:28:55 +1030
"Daniel O'Connor" <address@hidden> wrote:

> I had a go at getting that to work with preprocessor magic but I don't think 
> it's possible (I'm no CPP guru though).
> 
> Actually, how about..
> 
> #define FOO "\070"
> #define getOrd(x) (x)[0]

Oh, works impeccably, thanks Daniel ! :-)

As a newbee, so far I have never ventured into using #defines for
anything else than plain constants, but looks like making "functions"
is not that difficult it appears in your example, yet incredibly
useful/practical ! :o)


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