"Julio César Carrascal Urquijo" <adnoctum phreaker.net> writes:

According to documentation the following should work:

void main()
{
    char[] data = r"<p align="center">someText</p>";
}

but fails with:

test.d(3): semicolon expected, not 'center'
test.d(3): found '>someText</p>' when expecting ';'

I'm using DMD 0.73 on Windows


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"Walter" <walter digitalmars.com> writes:

"Julio César Carrascal Urquijo" <adnoctum phreaker.net> wrote in message
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 According to documentation the following should work:

 void main()
 {
     char[] data = r"<p align="center">someText</p>";
 }

 but fails with:

 test.d(3): semicolon expected, not 'center'
 test.d(3): found '>someText</p>' when expecting ';'

 I'm using DMD 0.73 on Windows

You can't have a " in an r"string". Write it as: "<p
align=\"center\">someText</p>";

Helmut Leitner <helmut.leitner chello.at> writes:

Walter wrote:
 
 "Julio César Carrascal Urquijo" <adnoctum phreaker.net> wrote in message
 news:blnrue$24t4$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 According to documentation the following should work:

 void main()
 {
     char[] data = r"<p align="center">someText</p>";
 }

 but fails with:

 test.d(3): semicolon expected, not 'center'
 test.d(3): found '>someText</p>' when expecting ';'

 I'm using DMD 0.73 on Windows

 
 You can't have a " in an r"string". Write it as: "<p
 align=\"center\">someText</p>";

Would it be a problem to allow 
   r'...............'
in addition to the existing
   r"..............."
as alternative syntax for wysiwig strings?

Using it the example became:
  char[] data = r'<p align="center">someText</p>';

It's not only good for HTML, but also be a blessing for
SQL programming, consider:

   cmd=r'SELECT .... WHERE customer="ThisName" ....;'

-- 
Helmut Leitner    leitner hls.via.at
Graz, Austria   www.hls-software.com

"Christian Kaiser" <chk online.de> writes:

May I cite the manual:

 An alternate form of wysiwyg strings are enclosed by backquotes, the `
character. The ` character is not available on some keyboards and the font
rendering of it is sometimes indistinguishable from the regular ' character.
Since, however, the ` is rarely used, it is useful to delineate strings with
" in them.
	`hello`
	`c:\root\foo.exe`
	`ab\n`			string is 4 characters, 'a', 'b', '\', 'n'
	Christian"Helmut Leitner" <helmut.leitner chello.at> wrote in message
news:3F7FC110.9ABEE8D1 chello.at...
 Walter wrote:
 "Julio César Carrascal Urquijo" <adnoctum phreaker.net> wrote in message
 news:blnrue$24t4$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 According to documentation the following should work:

 void main()
 {
     char[] data = r"<p align="center">someText</p>";
 }

 but fails with:

 test.d(3): semicolon expected, not 'center'
 test.d(3): found '>someText</p>' when expecting ';'

 I'm using DMD 0.73 on Windows

 You can't have a " in an r"string". Write it as: "<p
 align=\"center\">someText</p>";

 Would it be a problem to allow
    r'...............'
 in addition to the existing
    r"..............."
 as alternative syntax for wysiwig strings?

 Using it the example became:
   char[] data = r'<p align="center">someText</p>';

 It's not only good for HTML, but also be a blessing for
 SQL programming, consider:

    cmd=r'SELECT .... WHERE customer="ThisName" ....;'

 -- 
 Helmut Leitner    leitner hls.via.at
 Graz, Austria   www.hls-software.com

"Julio César Carrascal Urquijo" <adnoctum phreaker.net> writes:

 You can't have a " in an r"string". Write it as: "<p
 align=\"center\">someText</p>";


That's right. I was so tired last night. Don't know what was I thinking.

I'm sorry.