RE: [avr-gcc-list] Strings: escape sequence to insert arbitrary hexvalue ?

[Michael]

> Hello, 

> 

> All on-line tutorials on C just do'nt seem to cover all these
practical 

> little things I need... these tutorials aren't much help for 

> day to day issues with microcontroller programming I find :-/ 

> 

> Problem: in the strings I define, some of the characters are custom 

> defined (ASCII codes 0 to 7 in a text LCD module). 

> 

> I have some defines like such: 

> 

> #define LCD_CUSTOM_CHAR_FOO <any value from 0 to 7 and 0x80 and up> 

> 

> char example[] = "Example String"; 

> 

> Now I need to insert the define "LCD_CUSTOM_CHAR_FOO" somewhere in 

> the string, and have the compiler replace it with the hex code it 

> stands for... how to instruct the compiler to do so ?! 

> 

> TIA 

> 

> 

> Regards, 

> 

> 

> -- 

> Vince, the devil is in the detail they say... 

I'm not sure if this may be of any use to you, but I find it pretty
handy when I need to send special characters. 

If you have a #define: 

#define PDATA(type, ...) (__extension__({static type __nonamed[] PROGMEM
= __VA_ARGS__ ; &__nonamed[0];})) 

You can specify any data you like in program memory, like PSTR() only
with data. 

Eg. 

PDATA(char,{0xB0,0x30,0x30,0xB2,0xA1,0x83,0x00}) 

I'd like to see this included in <avr/pgmspace.h> 

Regards, 

Michael. 

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