Posts by ChaseRLewis which have been Voted Down

Guess nothing as convenient as lua's --[[ --]] operators. Never really had a need for such long strings so never really looked into it.

I'm starting to write more intricate code that does some dynamic compilation through Lua and OpenGL. However, my code is starting to get kinda messy because I have many const char* strings and strings in sections of my code so they can be parsed together properly depending on specific conditions. The only method I know for structuring strings across multiple lines is:

const char* foo = "1\n\
2\n\
3";

prints --
1
2
3

Is there a better way as this looks messy? Maybe some method of using \b*number.

Visual Studio automatically does this but unfortunately it puts all the spaces on the line leading too it.

const char* foo = "1\n\
                   2\n\
                   3";
prints --
1
                   2
                   3

I don't really want to do \b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b or something silly or even count the backspaces unless I have to. Any ideas?