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From: rwhite@nusdhub.UUCP (Robert C. White Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: newlines in string constants
Message-ID: <116@nusdhub.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 8-Oct-87 18:20:07 EDT
Article-I.D.: nusdhub.116
Posted: Thu Oct  8 18:20:07 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 11-Oct-87 12:00:48 EDT
References: <2669@xanth.UUCP> <6527@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Organization: National University, San Diego
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Summary: Try This...

In article <6527@brl-smoke.ARPA>, gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
> In article <2669@xanth.UUCP> kyle@xanth.UUCP (Kyle Jones) writes:
> >char *s = "This is\n\
> >legal.";
> 
> 	char *s = "This is\n"
> 		"legal too.";

	It is a much more effective [if the strings are short]
to simply write:

	char *s = "This is\nQuite legal.\nIf a little ugly."

Robert ("Who Asked You Anyway?") White.