On 1/12/06, Henning Thielemann
On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Jason Dagit wrote:
On Jan 12, 2006, at 1:34 AM, Henning Thielemann wrote:
On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Michael Vanier wrote:
Is there any support for multi-line string literals in Haskell? I've done a web search and come up empty. I'm thinking of using Haskell to generate web pages and having multi-line strings would be very useful.
Do you mean
unlines ["first line", "second line", "third line"]
The original poster probably meant something like this:
let foo = "This is a long string
Which does not end until the matching end quote."
I don't see the need for it, since
unlines [ "first line", "second line", "third line"]
works as well.
Nevertheless Haskell supports multiline strings (although it seems like a lot of people don't know about it). You escape it using \ and then another \ where the string starts again. str = "multi\ \line" Prelude>str "multiline" /S -- Sebastian Sylvan +46(0)736-818655 UIN: 44640862