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Re: Multiline Anonymous Literal Strings

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From: Michael Hernandez <sequethin@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Chris Johnson <cjohnson@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Multiline Anonymous Literal Strings
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 13:57:31 -0400
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On Sep 28, 2006, at 1:51 PM, Chris Johnson wrote:

Hi.

Anyone know of a way to compose a long literal string without doing
something like this?

   myvar="this is a really long string so long that I need to break"
   myvar="$myvar up the assignment"

In C, contiguous quoted strings are implicitly joined at a compiletime:


   printf("This is a really long literal strong that will extend "
          "beyond 80 characters.\n");

In Perl and other languages, concatenation operators like ., &, and +
are available.

One application of this problem's


You can try:

foo="some text on this line \
more text here \
yet more here"

the \'s keep everything on one line, i.e. the newlines aren't part ofthe string.


Mike

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