New line in C

[dwlu244]

Say one line on my code is 100 characters long. The requirement is 70 charaters per line just for the sake of layout. Basically, how do I make one line of code into two lines?

Would I just press enter? Or would the compile recognise the enter and do something else different to it?

Help appreciated.

[wise_ron]

Would I just press enter?

Iam not sure what you are talking about but i think you wan to creat a newline.

Example if my code is:

ajlkjfdlkajlfdkjaklajlfkjda = 100 characters
adkjfhakf = 70 characters

you need to use the command \n whever you want to end the code

example:

#include<stdio.h>
main()
{
  printf("adkjfhakf \n");
  printf("ajlkjfdlkajlfdkjaklajlfkjda");
  return 0;
}

[quzah]

Whitespace can be used pretty much as you please. You can have long lines, or short, either is fine; though I prefer ~78 characters per line maximum if possible.
Talking about non-strings here, you can break lines pretty much when ever you like, so long as you're not chopping a function name in half, or a variable name, or something like that.

int x;
int
y;
int
z
;

All of that is fine, this isn't:

in
t x;

Your compiler will no longer see "in" and "t" as "int". So other than stuff like that, you are free to scatter whitespace as needed.

If that's not what you're talking about, please clarify.

For strings, it will concatenate consecutive strings to be a single. Like so:

char *foo = "Hello"
" "
"World!";

Those three will be combine into a single "Hello World!".


Quzah.

[dwlu244]

Thanks for both of the reply. But yeah, I didn't mean printf, I just meant normal instructions.

And I tried just using enter and the program worked normal. So yeah, it's all good.

Edit* I was referring to quzah's first section. Pardon the inclarity.

[quzah]

Thanks for both of the reply. But yeah, I didn't mean printf, I just meant normal instructions.

And I tried just using enter and the program worked normal. So yeah, it's all good.

Edit* I was referring to quzah's first section. Pardon the inclarity.

When writing macros however, you must end your line with a \ if you wish to continue the macro to the next line.

#define FOO(BAR)      \
    ( (BAR) == EMPTY  \
        ? "Restock!"  \
        : "Drink up!" \
    )

Naturally they don't have to all be lined up...

Quzah.