Re: breaking long lines in my code

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i think the concatination method is the most elegant.

print "this is line 1, " .
      "this is line 2, " .
      "this is line 3";
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would print: this is line 1, this is line 2, this is line 3 all on one single line. It breaks down your code very well without messing up your output.

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Re: Re: breaking long lines in my code by RSevrinsky (Scribe) on Feb 10, 2002 at 12:50 UTC
I agree that concatenation is the best way to go (to handle scalars as well as prints, CGI.pm parameters, etc.). I found that, to get emacs to indent properly in circumstances like this, it worked best to surround the entire string in a NOP function call: `print nop("this is line 1, " . "this is line 2, " . "this is line 3");` [download] In this case, nop() is as simple as it looks: `sub nop { return join("", @_) }` [download] If anyone has a better way of handling the auto-indenting problem, I'm open to it. - Richie	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re: Re: breaking long lines in my code
by RSevrinsky (Scribe) on Feb 10, 2002 at 12:50 UTC

print nop("this is line 1, " .
          "this is line 2, " .
          "this is line 3");
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In this case, nop() is as simple as it looks:

sub nop { return join("", @_) }
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If anyone has a better way of handling the auto-indenting problem, I'm open to it.

- Richie

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