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

• Posted by Kat <gertie at PELL.NET> Mar 13, 2002
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What's wrong with simply gets()ing a text file of any length you want, edited 
any way you want, and displayed any way you want, in any editor you 
want, rather than cluttering up the code files?

Kat

On 14 Mar 2002, at 9:57, Derek Parnell wrote:

> 
> 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"
> 
> --------
> 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.
> 
> 
> 
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