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Lanks

Thu Mar 26, 2009 8:24 am


String literal ends at end of line

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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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DemonWasp

Thu Mar 26, 2009 9:43 am


RE:String literal ends at end of line

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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.

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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andrew.

Thu Mar 26, 2009 5:16 pm


RE:String literal ends at end of line

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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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DemonWasp

Thu Mar 26, 2009 7:26 pm


RE:String literal ends at end of line

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It's pretty standard; Java additionally allows for \u#### in some cases for internationalisation purposes.


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Lanks

Thu Mar 26, 2009 7:55 pm


RE:String literal ends at end of line

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thanks! that will work just fine