Computer Science Canada String literal ends at end of line |
| Author: | Lanks [ Thu Mar 26, 2009 8:24 am ] |
| Post subject: | String literal ends at end of line |
WHAT?!?!?! can turing not handle put "\" if you run that it will give you an error : "String literal ends at end of line" anyone know a workaround? i am trying to draw a ghost using ascii and it won't place the backslashes... |
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| Author: | DemonWasp [ Thu Mar 26, 2009 9:43 am ] | ||
| Post subject: | RE:String literal ends at end of line | ||
Backslashes are an escape character, meaning that the second double-quote is being interpreted as part of the string, rather than the end of the string.
In general, whatever character you put after a backslash is interpreted by Turing as being that literal character in the string, with the exceptions of t (tab), n (newline), and possibly r (return, but not line-feed). What you want is put "\\" . Edit: I should mention - this isn't a workaround. It's a feature. I'm not saying that in the sarcastic sense either, this really is a feature; it's the only way to get certain characters into strings. |
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| Author: | andrew. [ Thu Mar 26, 2009 5:16 pm ] |
| Post subject: | RE:String literal ends at end of line |
I know that Java does this as well. Like DemonWasp said, you can't work around it, it's built in to Turing. |
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| Author: | DemonWasp [ Thu Mar 26, 2009 7:26 pm ] |
| Post subject: | RE:String literal ends at end of line |
It's pretty standard; Java additionally allows for \u#### in some cases for internationalisation purposes. |
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| Author: | Lanks [ Thu Mar 26, 2009 7:55 pm ] |
| Post subject: | RE:String literal ends at end of line |
thanks! that will work just fine |
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