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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: newlines in string constants
Message-ID: <6527@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 7-Oct-87 21:19:16 EDT
Article-I.D.: brl-smok.6527
Posted: Wed Oct  7 21:19:16 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 10-Oct-87 12:19:59 EDT
References: <2669@xanth.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <2669@xanth.UUCP> kyle@xanth.UUCP (Kyle Jones) writes:
>char *s = "This is\n\
>legal.";

Still legal under ANSI C; the escaped new-line is removed from the
source character stream very early in the translation process.

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

Still not legal under ANSI C; the stuff after "= " on the first line
does not constitutre a valid preprocessing-token.

There is yet another way to do what you want under ANSI C, using the
new feature of concatenation of adjacent string literals:
	char *s = "This is\n"
		"legal too.";
Ths has the advantage that you don't have to start the word "legal"
on the left margin.