Thanks Roger, now I'm wondering what I thought I was remembering! Anyway,
what you suggested worked fine.
Regards
Chris Saunders
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Hi Chris!
In an external, you are already using verbatim strings. They insert
newlines into the generated code whereever they appear in the verbatim
string, so no continuation characters are needed. As long as the
newline is a benign occurrance in the C sequence, you can add them where
you wish.
If you need to unwrap the actual text going to the C compiler, then you
need to follow the C rules. The '\' character I think is passed as is
by Eiffel, so that can be used to escape a newline.
The trick is to realize that everything between the start and end
sequence of a verbatim string is taken, well, verbatim.
R
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Roger F. Osmond
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [eiffel_software] Continuing lines in the "C" part of an
> external
> From: "Chris Saunders" <
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> Date: Sun, October 25, 2009 4:38 pm
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> I have previously found the answer to this question in ECMA-367 but I have
> been looking again and can't seem to find it. I've been interfacing to
> some
> "C" code and some of the lines are quite long and I would like to split
> them
> up. I thought that I used to use % but this is not working. Could someone
> either let me know what I need to use or direct me to the section of
> ECMA-367 that I need to re-read?
> Regards
> Chris Saunders
