Re: getting cpp to insert a newline

From: Chris Croughton (chris_at_keristor.net)
Date: 02/10/05 

Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 18:03:43 +0000

On 9 Feb 2005 16:27:32 -0800, jiversen
   <jiversen@d2.com> wrote:

> Thank you very much for your reply. Its makes perfect sense.
>
> Its true, I'm attempting to use "cpp" for something thats not C - where
> whitespace and newlines ARE significant.

If you want something you can hack to get a similar effect, you could
look at my xcpp (http://www.keristor.co.uk/stuff/xcpp-0.5.5.tar.gz). It
doesn't implement #include files (that's not its intent) but it may be a
start. Or it may not, depending how unclear you find my code <g>...

Chris C

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