Re: [Vala] Handling multiline strings

[Satyajit Sahoo <satyajit happy gmail com>]

Thanks. That was of great help.


On 11 June 2013 00:09, Evan Nemerson <evan coeus-group com> wrote:

> 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


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