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From: meissner@dg-rtp.UUCP (Michael Meissner)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: newlines in string constants
Message-ID: <302@dg-rtp.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 7-Oct-87 10:44:54 EDT
Article-I.D.: dg-rtp.302
Posted: Wed Oct  7 10:44:54 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 10-Oct-87 09:44:31 EDT
References: <2669@xanth.UUCP>
Reply-To: meissner@nightmare.UUCP (Michael Meissner)
Organization: Data General (Languages @ Research Triangle Park, NC.)
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In article <2669@xanth.UUCP> kyle@xanth.UUCP (Kyle Jones) writes:
| 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?

The current ANSI draft still says this is illegal.  However, it does add a
feature where adjacent strings are pasted together.  For example, you could
write:

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