From: Chris Johnson <cjohnson@cs.utk.edu>
To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: Multiline Anonymous Literal Strings
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 14:27:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060928182701.GA29427@cetus5.cs.utk.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <34C65928-0F73-4A53-AE7A-9702191AA8D3@gmail.com>
Michael Hernandez sent me the following 0.7K:
> >Anyone know of a way to compose a long literal string without doing
> >something like this?
> >
> > myvar="this is a really long string so long that I need to break"
> > myvar="$myvar up the assignment"
>
> You can try:
>
> foo="some text on this line \
> more text here \
> yet more here"
>
> the \'s keep everything on one line, i.e. the newlines aren't part of
> the string.
I had disregarded that solution because one can't embed piecewise
comments. Sorry, I failed to mention that. In the mailing list
archives I just found a message about anonymous arrays and how they
aren't supported. All parameter expansion requires a named parameter,
so I think I'm out of luck.
--
Chris Johnson
cjohnson@cs.utk.edu
http://www.cs.utk.edu/~cjohnson
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-28 18:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-28 17:51 Chris Johnson
2006-09-28 17:57 ` Michael Hernandez
2006-09-28 18:27 ` Chris Johnson [this message]
2006-09-28 18:26 ` Frank Terbeck
2006-09-29 4:52 ` Bart Schaefer
2006-10-02 12:42 ` Chris Johnson
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