<<<EOF in javascript?

[James JVogt]

var longString = <<<EOF
blah blah blah
blah blah
EOF;

sooo does javascript have something like this? like perl and php do..?>

[Bear Bibeault]

Perl and PHP are server-side templating and scripting languages. JavaScript is a client-side scripting language with no ability to access files at all. So, no.

[James JVogt]

umm.... I'm not accessing a file... I'm assigning a variable to a string... that string being "blah blah blah\nblah blah\n"

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

James,
That's called a "here document." I don't think JavaScript has such a thing. You could try searching on "here document" to make sure.

[Bear Bibeault]

Then what's wrong with:

var whatever = "blah blah blah\nblah blah\n";    

?

[James JVogt]

What happens when you have a string with lots of special chars?

var x = "blah \"blah\" blah...."; and lots of newlines that you want formatted correctly... like, say, 100 lines of text. You don't want to do a bunch of +'s, that is slow. And an array of strings then a join on it is just verbose.

[Eric Pascarello]

var foo = "a\
b\
c\
d\
e\
f";

Eric

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Eric,
Cool! JavaScript works like a property file .