Greetings all,
While writing CGIs in C, I'm getting a bit sick of escaping
quotes and line continuations in strings. Not a huge deal,
perhaps, but there must be a better way. Strings end up in .data
or .rodata in object files to be linked...
I'm about to whip up a utility that will take any arbitrary
file and store the contents in a .o file (complete with symbol
names so one can actually link, of course).
Instead of compiling:
const char foo[] = "\"Escape\" chars make strings in 'C'
code...\n\
...messy. Line breaks can be troublesome and add\
unexpected whitespace to one's code." ;
simply put the desired unescaped text in a file:
"Escape" chars make strings in 'C' code...
...messy. Line breaks can be troublesome and add
unexpected whitespace to one's code.
then run the utility.
Large amounts of embedded HTML/XML/XHTML are just beginning to
bug me.
Note that it wouldn't be limited to text, either. If one wished
to take a raw-binary lookup table for a sine wave, that would
make no difference.
If there's interest, I'll post it for download. I also have a
few other ideas, and certainly am open to suggestions.
--
Eddy
Brotsman & Dreger, Inc. - EverQuick Internet Division
Phone: +1 (316) 794-8922 Wichita/(Inter)national
Phone: +1 (785) 865-5885 Lawrence
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