want a "here doc" equivalent in "c"

[LibraryUser]

Standard C knows nothing of 'embed', 'bash' or 'script'.


Ask this in comp.unix.programmer and prepare to be helped, or
rephrase the question to something not involving anything
platform-specific.

It is a perfectly valid C question, even though he is describing
the off-topic eventual use. The real question is "how to embed
all those characters within C source code", and the answer is to
use the escape character '\'.

 

[Alan Balmer]

I might wish I had written the above, but it was actually Richard.

 

[Tom Rodman]

Derk:

Thanks for your help - I'll use your approach; will write a
shell script filter to generate the meta-quoted strings in text[].

--
regards,
Tom Rodman
pls run for my address:
perl -e 'print unpack("u", "1\:6UP\,\$\!T\<F\]D\;6\%N\+F\-O\;0H\`");'

Derk wrote:

char *text[] = {
/*X*/
"line 1\n",
"line 2\n",
...,
"line n\n",
/*Y*/
0
};