As groovy doesn’t have EOL marker (such as 😉 it gets confused if you put the operator on the following line This would work instead: def a = “test” + “test” + “test” as the Groovy parser knows to expect something on the following line Groovy sees your original def as three separate statements. The … Read more
You can use the -0 switch to change the input separator: perl -0777pe ‘s/foo\nbar/FOO\nBAR/’ baz.txt -0777 sets the separator to undef, -0 alone sets it to \0 which might work for text files not containing the null byte. Note that /m is needless as the regex does not contain ^ nor $.
Per the specification, the JSON grammar’s char production can take the following values: any-Unicode-character-except-“-or-\-or-control-character \” \\ \/ \b \f \n \r \t \u four-hex-digits Newlines are “control characters”, so no, you may not have a literal newline within your string. However, you may encode it using whatever combination of \n and \r you require. The … Read more
I use #3. Same for long lists, tuples, etc. It doesn’t require adding any extra spaces beyond the indentations. As always, be consistent. mydict = { “key1”: 1, “key2”: 2, “key3”: 3, } mylist = [ (1, ‘hello’), (2, ‘world’), ] nested = { a: [ (1, ‘a’), (2, ‘b’), ], b: [ (3, ‘c’), … Read more
#!/usr/bin/env ruby =begin Every body mentioned this way to have multiline comments. The =begin and =end must be at the beginning of the line or it will be a syntax error. =end puts “Hello world!” <<-DOC Also, you could create a docstring. which… DOC puts “Hello world!” “..is kinda ugly and creates a String instance, … Read more
Use a regular expression validator instead. This will work on the client side using JavaScript, but also when JavaScript is disabled (as the length check will be performed on the server as well). The following example checks that the entered value is between 0 and 100 characters long: <asp:RegularExpressionValidator runat=”server” ID=”valInput” ControlToValidate=”txtInput” ValidationExpression=”^[\s\S]{0,100}$” ErrorMessage=”Please enter … Read more
By default all the EditText widgets in Android are multi-lined. Here is some sample code: <EditText android:inputType=”textMultiLine” <!– Multiline input –> android:lines=”8″ <!– Total Lines prior display –> android:minLines=”6″ <!– Minimum lines –> android:gravity=”top|start” <!– Cursor Position –> android:maxLines=”10″ <!– Maximum Lines –> android:layout_height=”wrap_content” <!– Height determined by content –> android:layout_width=”match_parent” <!– Fill entire width … Read more
If the text you’re putting in the TextView is short, it will not automatically expand to four lines. If you want the TextView to always have four lines regardless of the length of the text in it, set the android:lines attribute: <TextView android:id=”@+id/address1″ android:gravity=”left” android:layout_height=”fill_parent” android:layout_width=”wrap_content” android:maxLines=”4″ android:lines=”4″ android:text=”Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing … Read more
The common way is the format() function: >>> s = “This is an {example} with {vars}”.format(vars=”variables”, example=”example”) >>> s ‘This is an example with variables’ It works fine with a multi-line format string: >>> s=””‘\ … This is a {length} example. … Here is a {ordinal} line.\ … ”’.format(length=”multi-line”, ordinal=”second”) >>> print(s) This is a … Read more
Okay, I just found the answer (on Stackoverflow, no less). Eclipse has an option so that copy-paste of multi-line text into String literals will result in quoted newlines: Preferences/Java/Editor/Typing/ “Escape text when pasting into a string literal”