Question

Being a C novice I would like to hear what Macro “define”s developers are using. I’ve been thinking about putting these in a header to skip verbosity I’ve become used to:

#define TS_ typedef struct {  
#define _TS(x) } x;

#define I(x)_ { int i; for ( i = 1; i <= x; i++ ) {  
#define _I } }

Can I add \n \t etc within these macros? As I would like to pass on my sourcecode minus the extra include:

#define TS_ typedef struct {\n
#define _TS(x) } x;\n

#define I(x)_ { int i;\n\tfor ( i = 1; i <= x; i++ ) {\n 
#define _I \t}\n}\n

Would these work?

ie: Can I use the proprocessor to replace my sourcecode with my personal include to formatted source without the include ?

Links to good preprocessor tips and tricks also appreciated.

Answer 1

You can put whitespace in by escaping the newline

#define SOMETHING whatever\
This is part of the macro

But as others have said it’s not really a great way to to do this.

It would be much better to look into editor macros so you could type the shortcut and have the editor expand it.