## ALP Programming Guide and Reference

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### Description

Many preprocessing directives operate on sequences of raw text characters called Text-Argument s. A Text-Argument may be specified using any one of several methods:

Specifying the text directly using a raw Text-Literal.

Using the Text-Expansion-Operator to convert a numeric expression to its text representation.

Using a Text-EquateName in those contexts where a Text-Argument is expected. In this case the preprocessor will automatically resolve the Text-EquateName and use its value as the Text-Argument.