Multiline string value

Victor Vodovozov · 2021-10-05T03:50:51+00:00

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Victor Vodovozov

Is there any comfortable way to define multiline string value in OScript?

I need something like this:

sqlQuery = """SELECT

objf.sys_name,

objf.ui_name,

objf.show_order,

ftype.system_name as type

FROM

object_field objf,

field_type ftype

WHERE

objf.object_type_id = 1

AND objf.field_type_id = ftype.id

"""

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John Simon

Victor,

try using ` instead of ' when defining the string. ex:

public String fWhatever = `select *

from Kuaf

where name = :A1`

Cheers...

Victor Vodovozov

Thanks John. Unfortunately the module is not being built with this syntax.

I have a build error in the module tree but no comments from the compiler.

If you tell where to find build logs I can try to find details.

Victor Vodovozov

UPDATE: I found the compiler error message: incorrect syntax, unexpected LONGSTRING

Dave Carpeneto

Hiya - it sounds like something is fundamentally odd syntactically in your OS file. The error implies that you did indeed enter the long string with ` characters (so that's good), but where this long string is doesn't look right I would guess.

If you'd like to email me your source: I'm dcarpene@opentext.com . I'll see if I can figure this out, assuming that's an option.

Dave Carpeneto

For reference to those that may be following along: the issue was that the longstring was defined inside the function, which isn't allowed. It needs to be defined outside the function & then referenced from within the function. For example:

Bad:

        function x() 
                String y = `longstring`
                .doSomething(y)
        end

Good:

        String y = `longstring`

        function x() 
                .doSomething(.y)
        end

Victor Vodovozov

Thanks Dave! It works fine.

But it looks a bit weird for me - why doesn't syntax allow to declare a LONGSTRING in a function.

So I need to declare many LONGSTRING variables in my script since I have many functions there :)

Dave Carpeneto

That one I cannot answer myself - I'll check to see what info may exist.

Victor Vodovozov

Thanks Dave but don't worry too much. That was just my thoughts aloud :)