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RE: Defining long constants - do-able but not exactly elegant

• Posted by Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com> Mar 13, 2002
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What's wrong with :

constant testset=
--        "idfursf ujbdoc ujy negnxdnown idfu fun cxjkgdoc " &
--        "joy rggxnkkdbn ajo in wjoorf jggxnwdjfn fun "

--        "b hcn fba ioa caxw pbxlsbw ramc mpj scchk " &
--        "blmji mpbm pj rk ioaaran com cl mpj scchk"

--        "zaxabaprsanl cdrlt znlzdlsersanl nq zbntd " &
--        "fsabaprsanl nq skd brlu twedru nq habu baqd rhrv"

          "ktj uz wjiwnlufza rnujw fv nyywzqfbnujcp zaj iztwug " &
          "kjjyjw ugna fu nyyjnwv uz mj rgja czzdfah fauz fu"

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Derek

-----Original Message-----
From: petelomax at blueyonder.co.uk [mailto:petelomax at blueyonder.co.uk]
Sent: Thursday, 14 March 2002 9:38
To: EUforum
Subject: Defining long constants - do-able but not exactly elegant



After a few test runs with my fledgling cipher program, my source
contains something like this:

--constant ts1="idfursf ujbdoc ujy negnxdnown idfu fun cxjkgdoc ",
--		 ts2="joy rggxnkkdbn ajo in wjoorf jggxnwdjfn fun ",
--		 ts3="jzzjhdmdfl rz fun uronkf joy cnonxrsk  ",
--		 testset=ts1&ts2&ts3
--constant ts1="b hcn fba ioa caxw pbxlsbw ramc mpj scchk ",
--		 ts2="blmji mpbm pj rk ioaaran com cl mpj scchk",
--		 testset=ts1&ts2
--constant ts1="zaxabaprsanl cdrlt znlzdlsersanl nq zbntd ",
--		 ts2="fsabaprsanl nq skd brlu twedru nq habu baqd rhrv",
--		 testset=ts1&ts2
constant ts1="ktj uz wjiwnlufza rnujw fv nyywzqfbnujcp zaj iztwug ",
		 ts2="kjjyjw ugna fu nyyjnwv uz mj rgja czzdfah fauz fu",
		 testset=ts1&ts2

Obviously, I coded it that way because of line length problems, then
just carried on. I'd rather have one big constant & a loop.

Unfortunately Euphoria doesn't support \<eol>

I have a work-round (below), but before you read it, ask yourself how
you would do it, elegantly.

A gut of mine tells me that is not the best way to do it.
It's not very readable, really, & easy to make small slips, especially
when the set gets fairly large.






By the time you read this, I'll have coded:
testset={
t11&t12&t13,
t21&t22,
t31&t32,
t41&t42}
but I don't like all those extra names cluttering up my code. Was
there a t33, or not, t84? etc

Pete
PS I chopped a few of those ciphers to tidy up the post a bit.
Don't use em, if you want the originals I'll mail them direct.