From: eldiener@tropicsoft.com
MY_MACRO(x) // a single token MY_MACRO((x, y)) // a parenthesized list of two tokens MY_MACRO((x, y, z)) // a parenthesized list of three tokens MY_MACRO(x y) // two tokens MY_MACRO(x y z) // three tokens MY_MACRO(x = y) // three tokens with the second one being something specific
I will assume your examples are numbered from 1 to 6.
In numbers 2 and 3 the parameter is a pp-lib tuple. Normally you would have to know in advance how many elements are in a tuple but if your compiler supports variadic macros you can use my variadic_macro_data library in the sandbox to know how many elements are in the pp-lib tuple and then you can subsequently extract any one of them.
Numbers 1,4,5,6 are single elements. There is no way of which I know to determine how many space separated sequences of text there are in each element or extract any one of them. But there is a way to check whether the sequence starts with a given sequence, and you may be able to work from there via Lorenzo Caminiti's clever example, which he worked out for his Local library:
"NOTE: This is more of a curiosity because for my application I can manipulate the storage classifiers using preprocessor metaprogramming. In fact, `auto` and `register` are known alphanumeric tokens (i.e., keywords) that always appear at the beginning of the parameter type expression so the following macros can be used to manipulate them:
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REMOVE_AUTO(auto int x) // int x REMOVE_AUTO(int x) // int x
ADD_AUTO(auto int x) // auto int x ADD_AUTO(int x) // auto int x
Interesting. I'm trying to do something slightly similar. I'm trying to accept both "typename identifier" and "identifier", and add "auto" (the C++0x kind) if there is no typename. So "ADD_AUTO(int x)" would remain "int x", but ADD_AUTO(x) would become "auto x". Do you think that's possible? Thanks, Nate.