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André Henriques answer for a closed set $C$ can easily be improved to $C^\infty$ by considering $e^{1/(\alpha-x)+1/(x-\beta)}$ if $x\not\in C$ where $\alpha$ is the supremum of all elements $<x$ in $C$ and where similarly $\beta$ is the infimum of all elements $>x$ in $C$.