Array of char

Applications Programming
1

I'm doing some coding in C++

Want to have a long empty string like below

const char   ModMisfit :: DelStr[]  = "\r                                                                      \r";

However due to the long blank the line is very long. Is there any way to avoid this and keep the code width to around 80 characters.

2

Hello
why dont you do a simple

char foo[80]={0}; //initialize all to 0s
3

How about the \r. I am trying to write some stuff on the terminal when I run the program but then gets removed.

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Doing just like that did not work

I intend to first do

cerr << "info";

then

cerr << DelStr;

to remove what was written.

4

How about this:

#include <stdio.h>

int
main()
{
    char s[] = "Really "
                  "long "
                  "string ";

    printf("s = %s\n", s);
}

Here is a quote from KnR:

Does this help ?

5

that would do

6

With regard to the OP:

#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
  char *a="12345678"
          "9 10 11 12";
  printf("%s\n", a);
  return 0;
}

is a feature of C for the very problem the OP stated.

const char   ModMisfit :: DelStr[]  
                           = "\r                              "
                             "                                       \r";

Oddball features like this, trigraphs, and alternate tokens (C++ only) that relate to keyboard and console limitations exist mainly so that you can enter and read source on an old tty ~ the ones with limited keyboards, and limited "terminal" width - usually a piece of paper.