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From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com>
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Subject: Re: multi-line Strings
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 00:34:05 +0100
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On 15.12.2012 18:22, Peter J. Holzer wrote:
> On 2012-12-15 03:30, Arne Vajh=F8j <arne@vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>> On 12/11/2012 5:31 PM, Martin Gregorie wrote:
>>> Its just a bit frustrating that there are languages around that can d=
eal
>>> with regexes without turning them into an unreadable mess and that Ja=
va
>>> isn't one of them.
>>
>> The regex syntax itself is not exactly a good example of readability.
>
> True, but there are ways to improve it. For example, Perl has a variant=

> Regexp syntax (indicated with the /x flag) where whitespace (including
> newlines) is ignored and comments are allowed.

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/regex/Pattern.html#COM=
MENTS

> But for all various string syntaxes that Perl supports, it's still
> missing a sane multiline string syntax.

Does it?

$ perl x.pl
a line
another line
yet another line
one more line
$ cat x.pl

$str=3D<<MULTI;
a line
another line
yet another line
one more line
MULTI

print($str);

Cheers

	robert



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