Re: Multiline Anonymous Literal Strings

[Chris Johnson <cjohnson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Hernandez sent me the following 0.7K:

> >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"
> 
> 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 of  
> the string.

I had disregarded that solution because one can't embed piecewise
comments.  Sorry, I failed to mention that.  In the mailing list
archives I just found a message about anonymous arrays and how they
aren't supported.  All parameter expansion requires a named parameter,
so I think I'm out of luck.

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Chris Johnson
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