equivalent of "print <<<END;"

[coderrr]

I'm trying to put large amount of html into my C/Cpp cgi code
but found that it's been difficult to do something similar to how php handles large text. Do i have to \" for every occurance of a quote or is there somethign similar in C/C++????

in PHP you can just do
print <<<END;
....
....
....
END

or in Perl

print <<__EOF__

....
...
.....
__EOF__;

[dwks]

And in Python you can do

print """
...
...
"""

You can't do anything like that in C, not directly at least. I wrote a program that would take a text file such as this

And he said unto me, "Hello, World!\n"

-- The first AI programmer

and convert it to this

const char *str = "And he said unto me, \"Hello, World!\\n\"\n"
    "\n"
    "-- The first AI programmer\n";

You could write a similar program.

[quzah]

int c;
while( (c = fgetc( fp )) != EOF )
{
    putchar( c );
}

You mean something like that? If you're reading it from a file, just stick it into a string. You don't need to escape it if it is coming in from a file you're reading.


Quzah.

[dwks]

You do need to escape it if you read it from a file and stick the generated output in a C program as a string. It's a little more compilcated than that.

[swoopy]

>or is there somethign similar in C/C++????
Echoing Quzah's idea, it's probably easiest just to create a separate text file in the same directory with your code, read the file using a loop (maybe with fgets), and print it to the screen.

[swoopy]

You can also do something like:

   printf("What "
   "is "
   "your "
   "favorite "
   "food? "
   "Pizza, Hamburger, Lasagna\n");

This may not work in the C89 standard.

[CornedBee]

It does. Concatenating adjacent string literals is a well-defined job of the preprocessor.

[dwks]

GCC may complain if you have a string literal longer than 509 characters, though. Apparently the C89 standard only requires that compilers supports string literals 509 characters long. (Why they chose 509, I don't know, but I think it's 509 chars + NULL + 4 byte string length = 512 characters (2^9).) 509 sounds like a lot, but it isn't if you have a lot of information. I sometimes have to have several puts() calls in my usage printing functions.

[coderrr]

Is it possible to change or override the cout/printf quote(") delimiter to something else,
like __END__ ... more importnalty WITHOUT having ___END__ replace every other occurance of the actual " I intend to use.

Using a file is pointless and defeats the purpose. the whole point of using this print<<<END; thing is precisely to avoid opening extra files and to stick it all inside one code.

What do they call this feature in PHP/Perl anyway? "inline code embedding"?
It'll be nice to have a name for it so I don't have to keep referring to it as "this thing", lol)

print<<<END;
...
...
END

[Salem]

An idea would be to put all your HTML text into some external resource file and have the program read that at startup.

You can store that "raw" as it were, and it has the flexibility of being easy to change without having to edit and recompile the whole code.

C doesn't have <<<END tricks, get used to it.

[swoopy]

>Using a file is pointless and defeats the purpose.
If you have a large program, normally you're compiling several files anyway. I can see your point though. You may have several places where you have want to print text to the screen. So that would get messy.

[coderrr]

Check this out. You can use C++ as your web coding language, very similar to PhP........

http://www.micronovae.com/default_csp.html

looks like this might be an easier way to get my shiznit working the way I want it to.
Anyone know how popular/feasible C++ Server Pages is?

I guess not many people use it as PhP or Perl / java...