IFB and IFNB in Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Express?

[forever a loser]

In MASM32, the IFB and IFNB directives test whether the given operand/parameter/argument of some MACRO is blank or not.

In Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Express, you can #define parametered macro, like in MASM32, but how to test if a given operand/parameter/argument is blank or not?

Whata are the equivalents to IFB and IFNB of MASM32 in Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Express?

In MASM32, for example, I could:

print MACRO string
IFNB string
invoke puts, TEXT(string)
ELSE
invoke puts, TEXT("blank")
ENDIF
ENDM

where:

TEXT MACRO string
LOCAL new_label
.data
new_label db string,0
.code
EXITM <offset new_label>
ENDM

And in main program do:

print "string"
print

And output will be

string

blank
​

I want to achieve the exact same goal in Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Express:

int main()
{
print("string")
print()
return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

But how do I #define the print macro above the int main()?

Obviously I don't have to #define the TEXT macro in C and CPP files of course, because the Microsoft Visual C and C++ compilers already understand and accept literals strings quotes in function and macro calls.

So I only need to know how to #define the print macro properly and that's it.

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