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From: feg@clyde.ATT.COM (Forrest Gehrke)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: newlines in string constants
Message-ID: <15262@clyde.ATT.COM>
Date: Wed, 14-Oct-87 12:24:40 EDT
Article-I.D.: clyde.15262
Posted: Wed Oct 14 12:24:40 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 17-Oct-87 03:07:32 EDT
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Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Whippany, NJ
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Summary: How many spaces?......

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?
> 

How is the compiler going to divine the number (if any) of spaces you
will want?  The intervening spaces might have been intentional.

Forrest Gehrke