BEGIN { print "/* generated by awk */"; print "#ifdef E"; } END { print "#endif"; } /#define/ { comment = $2; num = $3; # extract the comment, if present if (index($0, "/*")) { sub(/[^/]*\/\*/, ""); sub(/ *\*\//, ""); comment = comment $0; } printf "E(%3s, \"%s\")\n", num, comment; }