Derek Fountain wrote: > One of the annoying restrictions of Java, at least to those of us who > frequent the worlds of Perl, PHP, etc., is the inability to define very > long lines in the source. I have a SQL query that spans about 20 lines > (and is growing in complexity by the day) and I want to embed it in my > Java. I'm developing it inside a SQL tool and cut-n-pasting it into my > Java source as I update it. > > Only that's a pain in Java because I can't just drop it into the source > - I have to wrap it up in string concatenations in order to span the > multiple lines. I want to keep the multi-line formatting so it's > readable in the Java source. > > One way around this is to put the SQL string inside a text file, then > access the contents of that text file from Java. Only I have several of > these strings (they define reports) so what I really want is something > that takes a text file like this: > > [report1] > select * from > blah > blah > blah > blah > > [report2] > select * from > this > that > etc > > and so on. I ask for 'report1' and get the appropriate string. > > I can write such a thing, but I wondered if Qt had something I might be > able to use. It has just about everything else. :)
I cannot think of a class in Qt that would do exactly this, unfortunately. > I just looked at QSettings - does that handle values that span lines? > I'd rather not use XML unless I have to, I don't need that level of > complexity. Any other options I should look at? QSettings is more used as an abstraction of a key/value pair used as a persistent settings store, where the data format is of less consequence to the user. As a result, the data format is not always readable. If you explicitly use the QSettings.Format.IniFormat you and you put in multiline text the .ini file will look like this: <snip> [General] hello=This\nis\na\nmulti\nline\ntext </snip> So not as readable as you prefer.. - Gunnar _______________________________________________ Qt-jambi-interest mailing list [email protected] http://lists.trolltech.com/mailman/listinfo/qt-jambi-interest
