split printf(" ") on multiple lines

Question

_{Monday, July 29, 2019 3:58 AM}

hi everybody, i am a newbie. i was curious to know if there  is a way to split  printf("   long text ") on multiple lines without visual studio prompting an error?

i have a very  very long text that I need to print on screen and when I add the printf statement i must keep everything in a single line and scroll all the way to the right to reach the end of my text or split the text in many printf() if i want to avoid scrolling.

is there a way to ensure that visual studio code modify something like this

printf( " part1

part2

part3 ");

in printf("part 1 part 2 part3") during the compilation phase?

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_{Monday, July 29, 2019 4:25 AM ✅Answered | 1 vote}

Try this:

printf( " part1 "
        " part2 "
        " part3 ", . . . );

or this:

printf( " part1 \
 part2 \
 part3 ", . . . );

The next variant inserts new-lines between parts:

printf( R"( part1 
 part2 
 part3 )", . . . );

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_{Monday, July 29, 2019 4:40 AM}

Hi LORD,

Welcome to MSDN forum.

AFAIK, there's two ways to broke a long printf statement into multiple lines:

One is what Viorel_ suggests, concatenate multiple strings together, one on each line.

And another way is to use a backslash as the last character, something in this format:

  printf("part1 \
part2 \
part3");

More details see this similar issue. Hope it helps.

Best Regards

Lance

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