string literals split to multilines?

[Andreas Lobinger]

Hello colleagues,

is there a counterpart for the string literal split to multiple lines like in python?

d = '09ab\
eff1\
a2a4'

Wishing a happy day,
       Andreas

[René Donner]

hi,

this should work:

d = """aaa
bbb
ccc"""

Rene

[Mike Nolta]

On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 5:19 AM, René Donner <li...@donner.at> wrote:
> d = """aaa
> bbb
> ccc"""

I think what Andreas wanted was a string without newlines. At the
moment, you can't do that in julia.

-Mike

[Steven G. Johnson]

On Tuesday, January 6, 2015 5:15:13 AM UTC-5, Andreas Lobinger wrote:

Hello colleagues,

is there a counterpart for the string literal split to multiple lines like in python?

d = '09ab\
eff1\
a2a4'

You can always just concatenate:

d = "09ab" *

      "eff1" *

      "a2a4" 

[Sean Marshallsay]

Rene, multiline literals should also work with just a single quote.

julia> d = "aaa
       bbb
       ccc"
"aaa\nbbb\nccc"

[Andreas Lobinger]

Thanks for all the answers. As Mike Nolta recognized correctly i wanted to split the string over a few lines without including the resp. newlines. In this particular case - i'm including a .svg file into a string for testing .svg import - the additional whitespace (incl. newlines) doesn't matter.

[Ronald L. Rivest]

Why not use concatenation:

   d = "aaa" *
         "bbb" *
         "ccc"
??

Cheers,

Ron

[Ismael VC]

Note that in Python if there is whitespace after the `\` it will be an error:

In [1]: s = 'one\
  File "<ipython-input-1-270c132ab6d9>", line 1
    s = 'one\
              ^
SyntaxError: EOL while scanning string literal

I think it's safer to just use the implicit string literal concatenation and implicit line continuation:

In [2]: s = (
   ...:     'one'
   ...:     'two'
   ...:     'tree'
   ...: )

In [3]: s
Out[3]: 'onetwotree'

Which lets you order the strings with the desired indentation level, without forcing you to write them flush to the left, as in your example.