Spread long line of code over multiple lines in the editor to make it easier to read

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Hi,

I have a long line of code that is for a string format and would like to know how I can spread it over multiple lines so it is easier to read in the editor screen?

C#

const string format = "{0,3} | {1,6} |A {2,6} |B {3,4} |C {4,4} |D {5,4} |E {6,4} |F {7,4} |G {8,3} |H {9,4} |I {10,4} |J {11,3} |K {12,2} |L {13,2} |M {14,6} |N {15,6} |O {16,6} |P {17,6} |Q {18,1} |R {19,4} |S {20,2} |T {21,4} |U {22,4} |V {23,3} |W {24,8}";

Appreciate the help,
suprsnipes

Posted 7-Mar-13 16:58pm

suprsnipes

Updated 7-Mar-13 17:05pm

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AspDotNetDev 8-Mar-13 13:58pm

For this particular line of code, I'd store the string in a configuration file and load it. You wouldn't be able to make it a const, but you'd still be able to make it readonly.

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If you don't want any embedded end-of-line characters, then the @"..." syntax won't help.
But, you can use the concatenation operator (+):

C#

const string format = "{0,3} | {1,6} |A {2,6} |B {3,4} |C {4,4} |D {5,4} |E {6,4}" + 
                      " |F {7,4} |G {8,3} |H {9,4} |I {10,4} |J {11,3} |K {12,2}" + 
                      " |L {13,2} |M {14,6} |N {15,6} |O {16,6} |P {17,6} |Q {18,1}" + 
                      " |R {19,4} |S {20,2} |T {21,4} |U {22,4} |V {23,3} |W {24,8}";

Posted 8-Mar-13 7:32am

Matt T Heffron

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2013-03-07T17:36:00

It the code is bad, formatting of the code won't help. But some reason, you demonstrate two of the trends haunting beginners very badly these days: trying to work with strings representing data instead of data itself, and hard-coding. This is very hard to cure.

As to your question, multi-line string literal can be written in verbose form, when you prefix it with '@':

C#

const string format = @"begin here
continue
continue...
...
and so on...
end";

In your case, it makes very little sense.

Read the language manual before writing who knows what. What you are righting right now is not programming at all.

Wish you the best of luck,

—SA