Long strings with newlines

Question

I have seen C# code that uses the @ to tell the compiler the string has newlines in it and that it should be all in one line. Is there something like that for C/C++?

Like if I want to put something like:

73167176531330624919225119674426574742355349194934 96983520312774506326239578318016984801869478851843 85861560789112949495459501737958331952853208805511 12540698747158523863050715693290963295227443043557 66896648950445244523161731856403098711121722383113 62229893423380308135336276614282806444486645238749 30358907296290491560440772390713810515859307960866 70172427121883998797908792274921901699720888093776 65727333001053367881220235421809751254540594752243 52584907711670556013604839586446706324415722155397 53697817977846174064955149290862569321978468622482 83972241375657056057490261407972968652414535100474 82166370484403199890008895243450658541227588666881 16427171479924442928230863465674813919123162824586 17866458359124566529476545682848912883142607690042 24219022671055626321111109370544217506941658960408 07198403850962455444362981230987879927244284909188 84580156166097919133875499200524063689912560717606 05886116467109405077541002256983155200055935729725 71636269561882670428252483600823257530420752963450

In a string I don't want to place it all in one line but just put it like that and have the compiler know that that is only one line.

Answer 1

C and C++ didn't have anything like C# verbatim string literals at the time this answer was first written. The closest you could do is:

"73167176531330624919225119674426574742355349194934"
"96983520312774506326239578318016984801869478851843" 
"85861560789112949495459501737958331952853208805511"  
"12540698747158523863050715693290963295227443043557" 
"66896648950445244523161731856403098711121722383113" 
"62229893423380308135336276614282806444486645238749" 
"30358907296290491560440772390713810515859307960866" 
"70172427121883998797908792274921901699720888093776" 
"65727333001053367881220235421809751254540594752243"  
"52584907711670556013604839586446706324415722155397" 
"53697817977846174064955149290862569321978468622482" 
"83972241375657056057490261407972968652414535100474" 
"82166370484403199890008895243450658541227588666881" 
"16427171479924442928230863465674813919123162824586"  
"17866458359124566529476545682848912883142607690042"
"24219022671055626321111109370544217506941658960408" 
"07198403850962455444362981230987879927244284909188" 
"84580156166097919133875499200524063689912560717606" 
"05886116467109405077541002256983155200055935729725"     
"71636269561882670428252483600823257530420752963450"

Note however that even in C# it doesn't do what it sounds like you want. If you have:

string foo = @"x
y";

in C# then the string will actually contain a linebreak.

In C++11, as per the comment, the R prefix denotes a raw string literal, e.g.

string x = R"(First line
second line)";

Answer 2

C and C++ have automatic concatenation of adjacent quoted strings. This means that

const char *a = "a" "b";

and

const char *b = "ab";

will make a and b point at identical data. You can of course extend this, but it becomes troublesome when the strings contain quotes. Your example seems not to, so it might be practical then.