>Rather than write a pre-processor, why not use the M4 macro-processor?
>It is *very* powerful, and will do virtually anything you want. Here is
>a very simple example that does string concatenation:
>
>Leon

I had completely forgotten about that old war horse.  I use to use it
to write cross assemblers back in my PDP-11 days.

Thanks for the idea, Leon.

Tom....