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From: kyle@xanth.UUCP (Kyle Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: newlines in string constants
Message-ID: <2669@xanth.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 6-Oct-87 19:19:49 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  6 19:19:49 1987
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I would like to be able to have multi-line string constants without
having to put \n\ at the end of each line.  For example

char *s = "This is\n\
legal.";

whereas

char *s = "This is
not legal.";

I would like to see the second form become legal.  What does the
current ANSI draft have to say about this?

kyle jones  <kyle@odu.edu>  old dominion university, norfolk, va  usa