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On 12/15/2012 5:34 PM, Robert Klemme wrote:
> On 15.12.2012 18:22, Peter J. Holzer wrote:
>> On 2012-12-15 03:30, Arne Vajhøj <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
>>>> deal
>>>> with regexes without turning them into an unreadable mess and that Java
>>>> 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#COMMENTS
>
>
>> 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
>
> $str=<<MULTI;
> a line
> another line
> yet another line
> one more line
> MULTI
>
> print($str);
>

I had before imagined the possibility of something like:
#<<identifier; ... identifier

IOW:
str = #<<EOF;
line 1
line 2
line 3
EOF;

but, never really added this, as heredoc syntax is kind of ugly IMO...