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Oleg Serebryany wrote in message
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>Hello All,
>
>I am looking for a way to pre-process a text file (any text
file).  Does
>anyone know of a tool, component, or just Delphi or Pascal
source code
>that takes a text file, and using some syntax within the file
to:
>  - Expand macros
>  - Allow conditional inclusion or exclusion of text lines based
on
>DEFINEs or something along those lines.
>  - Include other files


Sorry, I don't know of one which you can download, but if you
have a C or C++ compiler you may be able to use its preprocessor.
I have Borland C++ 4.5 on my machine and there is a separate
preprocessor (CPP.EXE) in the package. This takes the source and
just obeys the preprocessor directives, dumping its output to a
text file. (Use -P- or you get file name info in the output
file.) I think it's for debugging complicated macros, but it
sounds like it might be what you're looking for. But where you
get it, I don't know.


FP