#include <stdio.h> int main(){ char *m = "try use \x68\x65\x78\x20\x65\x73\x63\x61\x70\x65\x73\x3f";
printf("%s\n", m); return 0; } On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 11:58 PM, David Brown <david.br...@hesbynett.no> wrote: > Vincent Trouilliez wrote: >> >> On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 15:18:44 +1030 >> "Daniel O'Connor" <docon...@gsoft.com.au> wrote: >> >>> You can define it like so.. >>> #define LCD_CUSTOM_CHAR_FOO "\012" >>> >>> then you can do.. >>> char example[] = "foo" LCD_CUSTOM_CHAR_FOO "bar"; >>> >>> You might be able to do something more clever but I don't know how :) >> >> >> Thanks Daniel (and Ivan as well, off-list), that worked a treat ! :-) >> >> Only drawback I found, is that I must now have TWO #defines for each and >> every custom character: one #define to represent the character as a >> string, so I can embed it into a string, and also all the #defines I >> already had, which represent the actual numerical value, for when I >> need to print an individual/discrete character rather than print a >> string. It's not the end of the world, but not very elegant either, so >> if anybody has a solution to make do with only one define per character, >> I am all ears ;-) >> > > An alternative idea is to find an ASCII character that you don't need > otherwise (say, "~"), and use it in your strings. Then do on-the-fly > conversion when outputing the strings: > > char example[] = "foo~bar"; > > void lcdWriteString(const char* p) { > while (char c = *p++) { > if (c == '~') { > lcdWriteChar(LCD_CUSTOM_CHAR_FOO); > } else { > lcdWriteChar(c); > } > } > } > > As long as you don't have too many, the overhead won't be bad (and the > substitute characters won't be too confusing). It should also work with > characters >= 128 as the substitutes, I believe. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > AVR-GCC-list mailing list > AVR-GCC-list@nongnu.org > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/avr-gcc-list > -- GDB has a 'break' feature; why doesn't it have 'fix' too? _______________________________________________ AVR-GCC-list mailing list AVR-GCC-list@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/avr-gcc-list