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From: [e-mail] (Gregg Townsend)
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Subject: Re: Line continuation in $define ?
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Chris De Young <[e-mail]> wrote:
> How do you (or can you) continue a line in a $define macro?

There's no way to do it directly, but you can do something like this:

$define part1 "..........................................................."
$define part2 "..........................................................."
$define part3 "..........................................................."
$define part4 "..........................................................."
$define part5 "..........................................................."
$define longstring (part1 || part2 || part3 || part4 || part5)

The concatenation takes place at execution time, so you won't want to use
it inside a tight loop, but other than that it should be fine.

   Gregg Townsend / [e-mail] / [phone] / 32 13 45N 110 57 16W
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