> How do you concatenate parts of a string constant into a single string
    > at compile time?
    >
    >  For example, what I want to do is something like :
    > #define clschar 0x01
    > #define tabchar 0x02
    >
    > disp(clschar+tabchar);
    >
    > Obviously the compiler complains about this!
    > I can of course do disp("\x01\x02");  but that defeats the point of
    > trying to use meaningful names for control characters.

static const char mystring[] = {clschar, tabchr, 't', 'e', 's', 't', 0};
disp(mystring);

BillW

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