1. Back quotes for raw/literal strings
I cannot find where Euphoria has raw/literal/non-escaped strings.
If I missed the info, could someone point me in the correct direction?
If not, what is the chance of having back quotes, "`", delimit
raw/non-escaped strings.
For example, `c:\Program Files\myfile.txt` would be
the same as "c:\\Program Files\\myfile.txt" or
`He said, "Hello" to her.` would be
the same as "He said, \"Hello\" to her."
Again, if this topic has been discussed or is documented, could someone
point me to it?
Terry Constant
2. Re: Back quotes for raw/literal strings
Terry Constant wrote:
>
> I cannot find where Euphoria has raw/literal/non-escaped strings.
> If I missed the info, could someone point me in the correct direction?
> If not, what is the chance of having back quotes, "`", delimit
> raw/non-escaped strings.
>
> For example, `c:\Program Files\myfile.txt` would be
> the same as "c:\\Program Files\\myfile.txt" or
> `He said, "Hello" to her.` would be
> the same as "He said, \"Hello\" to her."
>
> Again, if this topic has been discussed or is documented, could someone
> point me to it?
>
> Terry Constant
>
I may not know what your are talking about.
However I belived it is discussed in the
regular help file for Euphoria under printf (also see puts).
doncole
SF
3. Re: Back quotes for raw/literal strings
don cole wrote:
>
> Terry Constant wrote:
> >
> > I cannot find where Euphoria has raw/literal/non-escaped strings.
> > If I missed the info, could someone point me in the correct direction?
> > If not, what is the chance of having back quotes, "`", delimit
> > raw/non-escaped strings.
> >
> > For example, `c:\Program Files\myfile.txt` would be
> > the same as "c:\\Program Files\\myfile.txt" or
> > `He said, "Hello" to her.` would be
> > the same as "He said, \"Hello\" to her."
> >
> > Again, if this topic has been discussed or is documented, could someone
> > point me to it?
> >
> > Terry Constant
> >
>
> I may not know what your are talking about.
> However I belived it is discussed in the
> regular help file for Euphoria under printf (also see puts).
>
> doncole
> SF
>
Hi in euphoria " " delimits a string, and ' ' delimits a character (' '
delimits a string in delphi or pascal though)
so "This is a string of text\n" is a string of text with a newline character
at the end
and '\n' is just the newline character
Chris
4. Re: Back quotes for raw/literal strings
Terry Constant wrote:
>
> I cannot find where Euphoria has raw/literal/non-escaped strings.
> If I missed the info, could someone point me in the correct direction?
> If not, what is the chance of having back quotes, "`", delimit
> raw/non-escaped strings.
>
> For example, `c:\Program Files\myfile.txt` would be
> the same as "c:\\Program Files\\myfile.txt" or
> `He said, "Hello" to her.` would be
> the same as "He said, \"Hello\" to her."
>
> Again, if this topic has been discussed or is documented, could someone
> point me to it?
I'm sorry to report that Euphoria does not have such a facility. I know
some languages do have a way of representing literal strings that do
not need 'escaped' characters, but Euphoria only has one string literal
syntax. All string literals must be enclosed in double-quote characters,
must not cross over line boundries, and any embedded double-quotes
and newline characters must be 'escaped' - \" and \n respectively. Thus
the back-slash character must also be escaped - \\.
--
Derek Parnell
Melbourne, Australia
5. Re: Back quotes for raw/literal strings
Derek Parnell wrote:
> I'm sorry to report that Euphoria does not have such a facility. I know
> some languages do have a way of representing literal strings that do
> not need 'escaped' characters, but Euphoria only has one string literal
> syntax. All string literals must be enclosed in double-quote characters,
> must not cross over line boundries, and any embedded double-quotes
> and newline characters must be 'escaped' - \" and \n respectively. Thus
> the back-slash character must also be escaped - \\.
In C#, you put an @ in front of your string for unescaping strings:
a = "c:\\euphoria\\";
b = @"c:\euphoria\";
--
tommy online: http://users.telenet.be/tommycarlier
Euphoria Message Board: http://uboard.proboards32.com
6. Re: Back quotes for raw/literal strings
Tommy Carlier wrote:
>
> Derek Parnell wrote:
> > I'm sorry to report that Euphoria does not have such a facility. I know
> > some languages do have a way of representing literal strings that do
> > not need 'escaped' characters, but Euphoria only has one string literal
> > syntax. All string literals must be enclosed in double-quote characters,
> > must not cross over line boundries, and any embedded double-quotes
> > and newline characters must be 'escaped' - \" and \n respectively. Thus
> > the back-slash character must also be escaped - \\.
>
> In C#, you put an @ in front of your string for unescaping strings:
> a = "c:\\euphoria\\";
> b = @"c:\euphoria\";
>
And in D, you have two ways ...
a = r"c:\euphoria\";
b = `c:\euphoria\`;
But these are not Euphoria are they?
--
Derek Parnell
Melbourne, Australia
