Re: multiline strings and HERE documents

[Colin Ingram]

John W. Eaton wrote:

> On 27-Oct-2005, Colin Ingram wrote:
>
> | Does octave have support for HERE documents to handle multiline stings 
> | in script files?
>
> If I understand your question correctly, then the answer is no.
>
> Maybe you could give us an example of what you are really trying to
> do, and someone could help you find a convenient way to do it.
>
>  
sure..

right now I am trying to print a long paragraph of text to a file. 

printf ("Here is an example where one wants to print a long paragraph of 
text where it would be convenient, although unnecessary, to use a HERE 
document so that I can avoid having to put all the text on to one line 
and avoid implicitly inserting '/n` for newlines. This makes code much 
more readable")

in the past I have wanted to write output files with several variables 
to output like

var A: number
var B: another number
var C: string

and so on for several variables.

I had no trouble doing it but it would have been much easier to formate 
useing a HERE document instead of putting the entire quote on one line 
within an fprintf(). 

So I thought I had read about HERE documents in the manual but I 
couldn't find it again so I must have been mistaken.  Thanks though.

C

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