Compile-Time String Concatenation in C
In C99-compliant compilers, adjacent strings are concatenated at compile-time.
int main()
{
printf("Hello, " /* Cruel */ "World!\n");
}
This allows you to programmatically build strings at compile-time by utilizing pre-processor macros:
#define PKG "com/example"
#define CLASSNAME(pkg, cls) pkg "/" cls
// ...
char* classNames[] = {
CLASSNAME(PKG, "Foo"), // --> "com/example/Foo"
CLASSNAME(PKG, "Bar"), // --> "com/example/Bar"
CLASSNAME(PKG, "Baz"), // --> "com/example/Baz"
CLASSNAME(PKG, "Wiz"), // --> "com/example/Wiz"
CLASSNAME(PKG, "Wat") // --> "com/example/Wat"
};
Written by Louis Acresti
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