On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Simon Slavin <slav...@bigfraud.org> wrote:
> I'm writing an app which generates text files intended for reading by the > shell tool's '.read' command. We're using SQL text files because I'm > writing a design which needs to be completely open, understandable, and > easily hackable by third parties. > > I want to include comments in my SQL files. The following page > > <http://www.sqlite.org/lang_comment.html> > > suggests I can use lines that begin with two consecutive "-" characters > (ASCII 0x2d). I have done some exploration to find out how the current > version of the shell tool handles '<newline>--' inside quotes, inside > statements, etc. but since it's not documented I can't be sure future > versions will last the same way. > > Is anyone aware of any problems with this ? Any problems with multi-line > quoted text strings containing comments ? Anything else anyone wants to > warn me about ? I don't actually need to use the '/*' format, but if anyone > wants to talk about that, that's cool too. > Strings that contain comment-like characters are not altered in any way - the comment-like characters are preserved. The sqlite3_complete() routine takes care of this on behalf of the shell. > > Simon. > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users@sqlite.org > http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users > -- D. Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
