Multiline quotes - escaping quotes - et al

[Lawrence Tierney]

G'day,

I'm moving over from Perl to Java *cof cof*. So two questions:

1. Does Java have a multiline quote like Perl's "here documents" i.e.

<<HTML;

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="center">
<tr>
<td>Oh for a multiline quote!!</td>
</tr>
</table>

HTML

2. Does Java have a quote escaper a la Perl's qq function?

Perl: $html=qq*<td align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff">No need to escape</td>*;
Java: String html="<td align=\"center\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\">No need to escape</td>";

Surely Java must have mechanisms for both of the above?

Lord0

 

[Mark 'Kamikaze' Hughes]

G'day,
I'm moving over from Perl to Java *cof cof*. So two questions:
1. Does Java have a multiline quote like Perl's "here documents" i.e.
<<HTML;
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="center">
<tr>
<td>Oh for a multiline quote!!</td>
</tr>
</table>
HTML
2. Does Java have a quote escaper a la Perl's qq function?
Perl: $html=qq*<td align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff">No need to escape</td>*;
Java: String html="<td align=\"center\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\">No need to escape</td>";
Surely Java must have mechanisms for both of the above?

Nope. The usual solutions are:

1) Write your XML/HTML using ' instead of ", then use (in vi, adapt to
your editor of choice) :'a,.s/^.*$/"&\\n",/

2) Store text like that in separate files and use a utility method
to read it in, then do string replacement to insert values. This is a
better solution than hardcoding a bunch of text, but does require a bit
more work. At the end of this, you'll have a generalized templating
system, though, which is handy.

 

[Michael Borgwardt]

Surely Java must have mechanisms for both of the above?

Nope. What it does have is JSP, which completely removes the need
for such ugly mixes of markup and program code.

 

[Andrew Thompson]

1. Does Java have a multiline quote like Perl's "here documents" i.e. ....
<td>Oh for a multiline quote!!</td>

[ Oh for an online tutorial!!
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/ ]


I do not understand why you are putting html, but..
String s = "this" +
"this and this and this as wel as these (things)" +
"this and this and this as wel as these (things)";

2. Does Java have a quote escaper a la Perl's qq function?
http://java.sun.com/products/jndi/tutorial/beyond/names/syntax.html

Surely Java must have mechanisms for both of the above?

We have donuts in _all_ the
colors of the rainbow. ;-)