On Mon, 28 Jul 2025, Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal wrote:
On Jul 28, 2025 at 1:04:49 AM, Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal <
fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
Personally, I prefer the backtick solution.
The triple quote is slow, it requires postprocessing the string.
The backtick solution needs only one pass.
<rant>
I positively HATE it when people start treating whitespace as
significant. No YAML or Python for me on that account alone.
The triple quote solution (presumably Python inspired)
is a totally braindead and retarded solution as far as I am concerned.
</rant>
Maybe I missed something, aren’t both the string types identical in how
they function? I don’t understand how there could be multiple passes.
Because the amount of whitespace to remove at the start of every line
is determined by the amount of spaces before the closing triple quotes.
Ergo, you can only strip the whitespaces at the start of every line
after the whole string was parsed and you have determined the
number of whitespace characters to remove from every line...
-> 2 passes.
Michael.
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