If you want to do this in a procedural language use the PL/I preprocessor, compared to which the C preprocessor is unseriös. Anyone who knows REXX, a PL/I dialect, will find it easy to use; and its string-processing facilities are very powerful, almost as powerful as those of PL/I proper.
That said, the HLASM macro language is yet more powerful, as I would of course be expected to say. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA
