define a string

[QQ]

How to define a string?

Usually we can

#define MAX 30

However if I'd like to define a string const
can I?
#define S "Hello"

seems not working

Thanks

[Walter Roberson]

In article <11************ **********@o13g 2000cwo.googleg roups.com>,
QQ <ju****@yahoo.c om> wrote:

How to define a string? Usually we can #define MAX 30 However if I'd like to define a string const
can I?
#define S "Hello" seems not working

What difficulty are you having with it? Can you present a -short- program
showing what you are trying to do but which isn't working?
--
Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishab le from a feature.
-- Rich Kulawiec

[Thomas Matthews]

QQ wrote:

How to define a string?

Usually we can

#define MAX 30

However if I'd like to define a string const
can I?
#define S "Hello"

seems not working

Thanks

Just remember that the #define is a substitution
that takes place before the translation phase.

So, when using the #define, try getting the syntax
correct first:

/* First try with this syntax */
const char * S = "Hello";

/* Then move it to a #define: */
#define S (const char *)("Hello")

{Although literal strings are constants.}

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[Joe Wright]

QQ wrote:

How to define a string?

Usually we can

#define MAX 30

However if I'd like to define a string const
can I?
#define S "Hello"

seems not working

Thanks

#include <stdio.h>
#define S "Hello"
int main(void) {
puts(S);
return 0;
}

It's 'working' here.

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