Re: [Vala] Handling multiline strings

[Evan Nemerson <evan coeus-group com>]

On Mon, 2013-06-10 at 18:22 +0530, Satyajit Sahoo wrote:
> Hi. I'm trying to write a multiline string into a file,
>
> e.g.
>
> string new = """Line 1 and %s
>
> Line 2 and %s
>
> Line 3
>
> Line 4""".printf (var1, var2);
>
> The problem is, when I write it to the file, the lines from the 2nd line,
> have tab characters preceding them. I want to keep the idention level of
> the code to improve redability. How can I make it ignore the tabs used for
> code indention while writing to the file?

You can't, though instead of relying on verbatim strings you could do
something like

string foo = ("Line 1 and %s\n" +
              "Line 2 and %s\n" +
              "Line 3\n" +
              "Line 4").printf (var1, var2);

Note that method calls have a higher priority than string concatenation,
which is why I enclosed the strings in parenthesis.  Without the method
call you could just do

string foo = "Line 1 and %s\n" +
             "Line 2 and %s\n" +
             "Line 3\n" +
             "Line 4";

-Evan