PROPOSAL: Multiline strings (original) (raw)

Mark Mahieu mark at twistedbanana.demon.co.uk
Sun Mar 1 01:10:18 PST 2009

On 1 Mar 2009, at 08:58, Jeremy Manson wrote:

Frankly, to me, the big win would actually not be multiline literals, but would be escaped String literals. I'm sick of writing all of my regexps with twice as many \ characters as they need. Jeremy

Yeah :( I've seen people convert tried and tested regexes to brute
force String searches using indexOf and substring rather than put up
with the escaping problem.

Mark

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