Re: pre-processor string replacement

On 14 Jan 2007 00:10:18 -0800, in comp.lang.c , sam_cit@xxxxxxxxxxx
wrote:




#define status "23"
#define status "44"

What did you expect to see?

--
Ian Collins.

i expect first statement to replace status of second statement with
23, so it would be

#define "23" "43"...

No, the preprocessor doesn't work like that. All you've done is
redefine status.
--
Mark McIntyre

"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it."
--Brian Kernighan
.

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