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Re: C or Similar Preprocessor for General Use

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On 6/16/2011 2:23 PM, Gene Wirchenko wrote:

>       I am looking for a CLI-driven preprocessor that I can use on a
> Windows system for preprocessing text files (not C programs, BTW). The
> C preprocessor has about the features I need.

> Gene Wirchenko
> [I pointed him at a Windows port of Gnu m4 -John]


fair enough...


just in-case he wants a preprocessor with much more C like syntax (IMHO
m4 is a bit... weird...), I have put mine up on my server:
http://cr88192.dyndns.org/bgb_sapp.c

my server is not always up, as this is a personally-run server (at my
house, behind an ADSL connection).


was going to slap an MIT style license on it, but I noted I had already
put it under public domain, either way, it is free to use it however.

it does support a number of extensions though from the standard C
preprocessor, such as:
delayed expansion (via "##"/"###"/... directives);
block macros ("#macro name(args) ... #endmacro" IIRC);
in-place substitution ("$(name)");
...

but, sadly, these features are not really documented.

but, hell, in case it might be helpful, I am putting it up.

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C or Similar Preprocessor for General Use Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2011-06-16 14:23 -0700
  Re: C or Similar Preprocessor for General Use Gene <gene.ressler@gmail.com> - 2011-06-16 19:03 -0700
  Re: C or Similar Preprocessor for General Use BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2011-06-16 23:27 -0700
  C or Similar Preprocessor for General Use ray roth <rayroth@pacbell.net> - 2011-06-17 00:03 -0700
  Re: C or Similar Preprocessor for General Use Robbert Haarman <comp.compilers@inglorion.net> - 2011-06-17 10:25 +0200
  Re: C or Similar Preprocessor for General Use Roberto Waltman <usenet@rwaltman.com> - 2011-06-17 12:03 -0400
  Re: C or Similar Preprocessor for General Use "Akakima" <akakima33@gmail.com> - 2011-06-17 12:56 -0400

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