Re: printing long strings

[noreply@xxxxxxxxx (Gunnar Hjalmarsson)]

R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar wrote:
> I need to print diagnostic message strings like:
>
> warn "$parent/$child does not exist: verification failed\n";
>
> in conditional blocks that are nested and indented. This means that, on 
> occasion, the message string overflows to the next line in an 
> 80-character line in my source file. The message, when it appears, is 
> also broken at the same point. I would like the message to appear on one 
> line without being artificially broken because of indentation.

Either print a list of strings:

                warn "$parent/$child does not exist: ",
                     "verification failed\n";

or concatenate the message parts:

                warn "$parent/$child does not exist: "
                   . "verification failed\n";

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