Tomas Lind <[email protected]> writes,
> One last question. -local mynames- contains lots of areas so it
> would be nice to have some line-breaks (so it is not just one long
> row in my do-editor).
>
> local mynames "Stockholm Uppsala Södermanland �stergötaland
> Jönköping Kronoberg Kalmar Gotland Blekinge Skåne Halland
> VästraGötaland Värmland �rebro Västmanland Dalarna Gävleborg
> Västernorrland Jämtland Västerboten Norrbotten"
>
Martin has already suggested changing the delimiter. There are two
other solutions.
One solution, and my favorite, is to omit the quotes altogether:
local mynames Stockholm Uppsala Södermanland ///
�stergötaland Jönköping Kronoberg ///
Kalmar Gotland Blekinge ///
Skåne Halland VästraGötaland ///
Värmland �rebro Västmanland ///
Dalarna Gävleborg Västernorrland ///
Jämtland Västerboten Norrbotten
Note that I used the /// line-continuation marker on all but the last
line. When you omit the quotes, multiple blanks are converted to a
single blank, and that is exactly what we want.
The other solution I rarely use. It concerns the case where the elements
themselves contain quotes, so I cannot omit the outside quotes as I
just did. In that case, I sometimes code:
local myfiles `""first file name""'
local myfiles `"`myfiles' "second file name""'
local myfiles `"`myfiles' "third file name""'
Usually, however, in this case I follow Martin's suggestion and temporarilyi
switch the delimiter to semicolon.
Forgive the use of the compound quotes, but I have to use them on the outside
because the elements themselves contain quotes. The elements themselves
needed the quotes because they contained blanks. I used simple double
quotes for the inside elements, but I could have used compound quotes
throughout:
local myfiles `"`"first file name"'"'
local myfiles `"`myfiles' `"second file name"'"'
local myfiles `"`myfiles' `"third file name"'"'
-- Bill
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