Jeff 'Japhy' Pinyan wrote:
>
> On Feb 6, Balaji Thoguluva said:
>
> >Thanks Tim Johnson. I removed the /r/n from the reg-ex and it works. I
> >have another question. How to assign a multiline string or string having
> >many lines(strings having \n) to a $string-variable?. In C, there is a
> >"\" operator.
>
> You don't need to do anything special in Perl.
>
> $string = "This is a
> very long string
> that spans
> many lines";
>
> Or you can use a 'here-doc'.
> $string = << "END OF STRING";
> this is a very
> long string that
> spans many lines
> END OF STRING
In C, newlines have to be introduced explicitly as "\n". A literal
newline character (the end of a source record) has to be escaped to
make it 'vanish', otherwise it should throw a compilation error.
In Perl:
my $string = "One
Two
Three
";
In C:
char *string = "One\n\
Two\n\
Three\n\
";
or, because consecutive C string constants are implicitly concatenated:
char *string =
"One\n"
"Two\n"
"Three\n"
;
HTH,
Rob
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