How do you break long strings without getting a space in variables?

[Jason Martin]

/* The last token was a hyphen.
 In this case the hyphen is functionally replaced by a blank, and
hence acts as a continuation character. */

/* - the escape sequence represents a “null” character (the character whose
     encoding equals zero),
     used to indicate continuation in a say instruction */

/* Or how to break long strings without the added space */

name = 'Jason' -
       'Martin'

/* or space after -*/

program_name = 'Net'-
       'Rexx'

say 'good' -
'night'

say name

say program_name



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[Mike Cowlishaw]

Try:

 
name = 'Jason' -
  || 'Martin'

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[Jason Martin]

Sorry, just tired again.

On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 7:16 AM, Jason Martin <[hidden email]> wrote:

/* The last token was a hyphen.
 In this case the hyphen is functionally replaced by a blank, and
hence acts as a continuation character. */

/* - the escape sequence represents a “null” character (the character whose
     encoding equals zero),
     used to indicate continuation in a say instruction */

/* Or how to break long strings without the added space */

name = 'Jason' -
       'Martin'

/* or space after -*/

program_name = 'Net'-
       'Rexx'

say 'good' -
'night'

say name

say program_name

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[Jeff Hennick]

Jason,

You use the concatenation operator:  ||  It "swallows" the blanks on each side of it.

name = 'Jason' -
       || 'Martin'

or

name = 'Jason' || -
       'Martin'

But in this case you probably want a single space between the two strings.  Put it either in one of the strings or concatenate a third string consisting of a single space.

On 9/19/2012 12:56 PM, Jason Martin wrote:

Sorry, just tired again.

On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 7:16 AM, Jason Martin <[hidden email]> wrote:

/* The last token was a hyphen.
 In this case the hyphen is functionally replaced by a blank, and
hence acts as a continuation character. */

/* - the escape sequence represents a “null” character (the character whose
     encoding equals zero),
     used to indicate continuation in a say instruction */

/* Or how to break long strings without the added space */

name = 'Jason' -
       'Martin'

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On 19 September 2012 10:59, Jeff Hennick <[hidden email]> wrote:

Jason,

You use the concatenation operator:  ||  It "swallows" the blanks on each side of it.

name = 'Jason' -
       || 'Martin'

or

name = 'Jason' || -
       'Martin'

But in this case you probably want a single space between the two strings.  Put it either in one of the strings or concatenate a third string consisting of a single space. 

It needn't be that complicated; the continued line without concat will automatically generate a single space.

name = ''

name[0] = 2

name[1] = 'Jason'       -

          'Martin'

name[2] = 'Jason'       -

       || 'Martin'

loop nn = 1 to name[0]

  say name[nn]

  end nn

yeilds:

Jason Martin 

JasonMartin 

A.

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[Jason Martin]

Thanks again everbody,

1) I was trying to squeeze as much data into "ONE" class without breaking Java 64K class file limit.

2) I know that's a bad thing and not good coding but I have my reasons for this project.

3) I got to the point of even trying to cheat NetRexx

4) Then you just get tired and confused

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[Jason Martin]

I did learn that NetRexx parse can be quite a powerful tool without confusing regular expression syntax in this project.

And it saved me a lot of space without creating arrays or indexed strings.

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[ThSITC]

Hi Jason,
    as far as I do know you shall use the *concatenation operator' (||) in this case *before the hyphen*, e.g:

name = 'Jason ' || -
      'Martin'

I think that the Java Compiler (or even NetRexx ??) shall *optimize* the two concatenated literals*
into *one*, but am *not 100 % sure* about this....

Thomas.
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Am 19.09.2012 13:16, schrieb Jason Martin:

/* The last token was a hyphen.
 In this case the hyphen is functionally replaced by a blank, and
hence acts as a continuation character. */

/* - the escape sequence represents a “null” character (the character whose
     encoding equals zero),
     used to indicate continuation in a say instruction */

/* Or how to break long strings without the added space */

name = 'Jason' -
       'Martin'

/* or space after -*/

program_name = 'Net'-
       'Rexx'

say 'good' -
'night'

say name

say program_name

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