Need some help with C

codemaniac · Post by **codemaniac** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 7:56 pm

Hello!

Does anybody know if I can have a code block as a char in C? Maybe not exactly a char, probably tchar or something else, I don't know, because I am just starting out with C

The code block would be something similar to this:

<html>
<head>
<title>My Cool Website</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Welcome to my cool website!</p>
</body>
</html>

Thanks!

KarLKoX · Post by **KarLKoX** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 8:00 pm

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const char foo[] = "<html><br>\
                       <head><br>\
                       <title>My Cool Website</title><br>\
                       </head><br>\
                       <body><br>\
                       <p>Welcome to my cool website!</p><br>\
                       </body><br>\
                       </html>";

Tipperton · Post by **Tipperton** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 8:22 pm

Don't you need \n instead of just \ or is that a C++ thing?

Like this:

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const char foo[] = "<html><br>\n
                       <head><br>\n
                       <title>My Cool Website</title><br>\n
                       </head><br>\n
                       <body><br>\n
                       <p>Welcome to my cool website!</p><br>\n
                       </body><br>\n
                       </html>";

codemaniac · Post by **codemaniac** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 8:29 pm

Thanks!

KarLKoX · Post by **KarLKoX** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 10:29 pm

Tipperton wrote:Don't you need \n instead of just \ or is that a C++ thing?

Like this:

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const char foo[] = "<html><br>\n
                       <head><br>\n
                       <title>My Cool Website</title><br>\n
                       </head><br>\n
                       <body><br>\n
                       <p>Welcome to my cool website!</p><br>\n
                       </body><br>\n
                       </html>";

No, "\n" is only interpreted by functions like print, scanf ... where the '\' char is interpreted by the compiler (the lexer to be more precise).

Tipperton · Post by **Tipperton** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 12:04 am

Hmm.... back when I programed in C durring the DOS days, I recall doing something like this:

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fputs(stdout, "Hello\nWorld!");

and it worked, the output was:

Hello
World!

But if just the \ works, great! That's one less character to type!

thefool · Post by **thefool** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 12:07 am

Tipperton wrote:Hmm.... back when I programed in C durring the DOS days, I recall doing something like this:
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fputs(stdout, "Hello\nWorld!");
and it worked, the output was:
Hello
World!
But if just the \ works, great! That's one less character to type!

yes as he said, that is for string functions. The \ is for the lexer