<div dir="ltr"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-size:13px">How about this: a pseudo-function that will just include the contents of another file into your code?</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">let bigString = StringLiteral(“MyLifeStory”)</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">You have another file called “MyLifeStory.swiftstring” alongside your source file. Then there is no thinking about escaping, line endings, etc. Anything in that file is processed as the string.</span></blockquote><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">This makes sense for truly long strings, but could get unwieldy in the case of a handful of strings spanning a few lines each, which I would posit is the more common case.<br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><br><div>Riley</div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 14 December 2015 at 10:56, Kenny Leung via swift-evolution <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">How about this: a pseudo-function that will just include the contents of another file into your code?<br>
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let bigString = StringLiteral(“MyLifeStory”)<br>
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You have another file called “MyLifeStory.swiftstring” alongside your source file. Then there is no thinking about escaping, line endings, etc. Anything in that file is processed as the string.<br>
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-Kenny<br>
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