String continuation on next line

[Don Leckie]

Hi,

I've searched all my Java books ans newsgroup archives and found nothing.
Once I thought that I saw a character at the end of a line allowed a String
literal to span multiple lines.

I have some XSLT code that I want to write out with one println( )
statement. The XSLT code is several lines long.

Does anyone remember a String literal line continuation character?

Thank you,
Don

[David Moss]

Re: String continuation on next line

In article <hr6dnawtf8TI1I beRVn-jg@adelphia.com >, don@leckieinc.c om
writes...
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> Hi,
>
> I've searched all my Java books ans newsgroup archives and found nothing.
> Once I thought that I saw a character at the end of a line allowed a String
> literal to span multiple lines.
>
> I have some XSLT code that I want to write out with one println( )
> statement. The XSLT code is several lines long.
>
> Does anyone remember a String literal line continuation character?[/color]

Too much VB can affect you that way ;-)
"VB is a popular Australian beer " & _
"as well as Visual Basic)

AFAIK there is no such thing in Java.

String answer = "Java statements continue " +
"from line\nto line\n" +
"until they are terminated with a semicolon, " +
"so there is no need for any special construct";
System.out.prin tln(answer);

--
DM
personal opinion only

[Don Leckie]

Re: String continuation on next line

Hi David,

Thank you. Guess I was dreaming that I once saw it.

Don


"David Moss" <q0320811@mail. connect.usq.edu .au> wrote in message
news:MPG.1d86cc c3234a3bca98981 f@news.bigpond. com...[color=blue]
> In article <hr6dnawtf8TI1I beRVn-jg@adelphia.com >, don@leckieinc.c om
> writes...
>[color=green]
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've searched all my Java books ans newsgroup archives and found nothing.
>> Once I thought that I saw a character at the end of a line allowed a
>> String
>> literal to span multiple lines.
>>
>> I have some XSLT code that I want to write out with one println( )
>> statement. The XSLT code is several lines long.
>>
>> Does anyone remember a String literal line continuation character?[/color]
>
> Too much VB can affect you that way ;-)
> "VB is a popular Australian beer " & _
> "as well as Visual Basic)
>
> AFAIK there is no such thing in Java.
>
> String answer = "Java statements continue " +
> "from line\nto line\n" +
> "until they are terminated with a semicolon, " +
> "so there is no need for any special construct";
> System.out.prin tln(answer);
>
> --
> DM
> personal opinion only[/color]