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How do I convert a constant passed to a #define macro into a text string?

ANSWER
Pass the parameter to a stringizing macro as shown below:

#define NUMBER B85800 // this can be...

What you've offered will produce the following:

"X" (the name of the #define) not "ABC" (the value of the #define)...

I want the value contained within X to be stringized

I want to print the contents of a VC Preprocessor Definition (essentially a #define set by the IDE - such as X=ABC).

When I do the following:

printf("%s", X);

I get the compiler error:
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