On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 08:36 -0700, Mattias Thorslund wrote:
> Man-wai Chang wrote:
> >
> > Bash uses only 2. PHP uses 3. And I am using this:
> >
> > $sql="
> > select ...
> > from ....
> > left join ...
> > on ....
> > where .....
> > ";
>
>
> Exactly. I never saw the point in complicating my life with heredocs
> when both single- and double-quoted strings can contain multiple lines
> anyway.
>
> One thing that does bother me a little with multi-line strings of either
> variety is that if I want to avoid inserting extra spaces in the string
> at the beginning of each line after the first, I have to left-align the
> whole thing and cannot indent it with the rest of my code:
>
> if($something){
> if($something_else){
> $myID = intval($_GET['rowID']);
> $sql_pretty =
> "SELECT
> field1,
> field2
> FROM
> mytable
> WHERE
> rowID = $myID";
> $sql_ugly =
> "SELECT
> field1,
> field2
> FROM
> mytable
> WHERE
> rowID = $myID";
> }
> }
>
> Are there perhaps editors that would DISPLAY multi-line quoted strings
> "indented" to the correct level without inserting extra spaces? Some
> editors wrap lines to the correct level, which is also much more
> readable, so what I'm thinking of is a bit similar to that.
Then you'd have an editor that presents something other than what is
actually there. Go see Microsoft, I'm sure they create rubbish like
that.
Cheers,
Rob.
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