On Sun, 29 May 2022 at 10:21, Duke Normandin <dukeofp...@gmx.com> wrote: > > I asked this question on the Pike channel on libera.chat but nobody > is lurking at the moment. :) > > what does the # mean herein the following? > > [code] > str = > #"This is a multiline string > terminated by a double-quote like any other string"; > [/code] > > I've searched all the available docs that I can find, but have yet > to stumbled on an explanation of this syntax. TIA ..
A hash-quoted string can go across multiple lines. It's a preprocessor directive, like #define or #if, so the hash is indicative of that. (Unlike most preprocessor directives, it can happen anywhere in the line.) You can actually see what the preprocessor does by running "pike -E scriptname.pike", which will print out the code after preprocessing. A hash-quoted string is replaced with a string containing "\n" newline escapes, which is what the main parser then works with. ChrisA
