Literal Directives

[One Handed Man \( OHM - Terry Burns \)]

A long time ago when I was working with LotusScript, we used to be able to
use the | characters to simpify the constrcution of a string which had for
example quotes inside it from the First | to the Last |, the characters were
taken literally.

IE

myString = | "Hello World" |
print MyString

Would generate

"Hello World"

This made things easy and readable, compared to

myString = """Hello World"""

.. . .

I have not been able to find an equivelent in .NET, does anyone know if one
exists ?

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[Cor Ligthert]

Terry,

In my opinion is this answer from Herfried on a question from yesterday
handling this.

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm...0uni-berlin.de

When you read it, you know probably that it was followed by an answer from
me. (Which Herfried agreed by the way)

:-)

Cor

[One Handed Man \( OHM - Terry Burns \)]

Yeah, this is not quite what I am looking for, if you re-read my post, I
wanted to find something which simplified the inclusion of quotes from a
readability point of view, unfortunatley that have not implemented the
literal operator @ in vs2005

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"Cor Ligthert" <no**********@planet.nl> wrote in message
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Terry,

In my opinion is this answer from Herfried on a question from yesterday
handling this.

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm...0uni-berlin.de

When you read it, you know probably that it was followed by an answer from
me. (Which Herfried agreed by the way)

:-)

Cor

[Cor Ligthert]

Terry,

I wished thy implemented the JavaScript way

'"My" "World"'
Impossible in VBNet

While
"'My' 'World'"
Possible in VBNet

Maybe there is no view outside the US about this?

Cor

[One Handed Man \( OHM - Terry Burns \)]

ACK as H would say

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"Cor Ligthert" <no**********@planet.nl> wrote in message
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Terry,

I wished thy implemented the JavaScript way

'"My" "World"'
Impossible in VBNet

While
"'My' 'World'"
Possible in VBNet

Maybe there is no view outside the US about this?

Cor

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

* "One Handed Man \( OHM - Terry Burns \)" <news.microsoft.com> scripsit:

A long time ago when I was working with LotusScript, we used to be able to
use the | characters to simpify the constrcution of a string which had for
example quotes inside it from the First | to the Last |, the characters were
taken literally.

IE

myString = | "Hello World" |
print MyString

Would generate

"Hello World"

This made things easy and readable, compared to

myString = """Hello World"""

. . .

I have not been able to find an equivelent in .NET, does anyone know if one
exists ?

That's would not be a .NET feature, but it would be a feature of the
programming language. Currently that's not supported by VB.NET.

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M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/>

[One Handed Man \( OHM - Terry Burns \)]

When talking in this newsgroup VB is implied.

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"Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]" <hi***************@gmx.at> wrote in message
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* "One Handed Man \( OHM - Terry Burns \)" <news.microsoft.com> scripsit:

A long time ago when I was working with LotusScript, we used to be able to use the | characters to simpify the constrcution of a string which had for example quotes inside it from the First | to the Last |, the characters were taken literally.

IE

myString = | "Hello World" |
print MyString

Would generate

"Hello World"

This made things easy and readable, compared to

myString = """Hello World"""

. . .

I have not been able to find an equivelent in .NET, does anyone know if one exists ?

That's would not be a .NET feature, but it would be a feature of the
programming language. Currently that's not supported by VB.NET.

--
M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/>

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

* "One Handed Man \( OHM - Terry Burns \)" <news.microsoft.com> scripsit:

When talking in this newsgroup VB is implied.

Sure.

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M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/>