Re: Newline
| From: | Nathan Nobbe | Date: | Sun, 28 Oct 2007 14:43:38 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Newline | ||
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On 10/28/07, magoo <i.am.magoo@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi NG!
>
> I have switched to using single quotes, and found out that newline (\n)
> only
> works in double quotes. It looks kind of stupid using 'someString'."\n";
> and
> it`s kind of inconsistent using double quotes for some lines like
> "someString\n";.
> What`s the best way to get a consitent code?
>
choose the string syntax that best fits the purpose of the given string.
if a string will not have variables embedded in it, or special characters,
use
single quotes. if it will, use double quotes.
if you have a particularly long string, with variables and special
characters
consider Heredoc.
-nathan