inline text, large strings

[Daniel Heiserer]

Hi,
I want to fill a string like this:

using namespace std;
string text="
now a lot of text ............... .
now a lot of text ............... .
now a lot of text ............... .
now a lot of text ............... .
now a lot of text ............... .
";

I get the warning message using g++ (GCC) 3.2.2 on linux:
.......warning: multi-line string literals are deprecated

Is there a way to write large portions of text right into the
code without getting these warnings?
I do not want to write something like this:

string text;
text+="now a lot of text ............... .";
text+="now a lot of text ............... .";
text+="now a lot of text ............... .";
text+="now a lot of text ............... .";
text+="now a lot of text ............... .";

-- thanks, daniel

[Gernot Frisch]

> The '\' is only to indicate the compiler, that the next line is

extending this line (as in the #define macros)

....which the OP didn't use. My fault, sorry for not looking exaclty.
Flame me, I'm unworthy to post here....

[Dietmar Kuehl]

"Gernot Frisch" <[e-mail] > wrote:

The original text:
char as[]="asasd
asdasd
asdasd";
had _no_ newline characters.

Since multi-line string constants are not defined in standard C++, it is
somewhat hard to tell what the standard semantics of the above string are.
I guess that there are at least three cases how the above string is
treated by different systems:
- it is an error
- it is a string with newlines
- it is a string without newline
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[Jack Klein]

On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 15:04:16 +0200, "Gernot Frisch" <[e-mail] >
wrote in comp.lang.c++:

"now " "a " "lot " "of " "text"

is equivalent to "now a lot of text".
In other words: The compiler will catanate individual string
literals into one literal on its own.

Crap! 5 years of programming things like:

printf(" Here\n\
comes \
my \
text");
and now you tell me I can add comments and indentination with "" ""...
Bohooo.. All my pretty source code looks like a piece of #*%& because
I didn't know that.
-Gernot

Yes, since the very first 1989 ANSI C standard.

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[Gernot Frisch]

"Dietmar Kuehl" <di***********@ yahoo.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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"Gernot Frisch" <[e-mail] > wrote:

The original text:
char as[]="asasd
asdasd
asdasd";
had _no_ newline characters.
Since multi-line string constants are not defined in standard C++,

it is somewhat hard to tell what the standard semantics of the above string are. I guess that there are at least three cases how the above string is
treated by different systems:
- it is an error
- it is a string with newlines
- it is a string without newline

Re-checked it: VC gives an error, gcc will add a newline.