Date:         Wed, 23 Oct 2002 09:12:25 +0200
Reply-To:     fvillamayor-research@ferrergrupo.com
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From:         Frederic Villamayor <fvillamayor-research@ferrergrupo.com>
Subject:      Re: End-of-line: A tale of two modes: Interactive vs batch (aka
              produ ction)
Comments: To: "McGee, Magnus" <mam@hsru.abdn.ac.uk>
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Magnus,
I've faced with this problem and , yes, the solution was to truncate 
command lines. As a rule, I split command lines at convenience (but not in 

the middle of a subcommand!) indenting 1 space all tn lines after the 
first. As for long strings, you can split them where you want, but you 
must end each line with a quote and a plus '+' symbol, and start next line 

wit a quote. You can split by this methos a long string into as many lines 

as you want.
For example, it a file names is:
"C:\My documents\Projects\XXXX\Data\Original\These are my data and the 
file name is very long.sav"
you can split it as follows:
"C:\My documents\Projects\XXXX\Data\Original\"+
"These are my data "+
"and the file name is very long.sav"
HTH
Frederic Villamayor
Departamento de Toxicología
C.I.D.F. GRUPO FERRER





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Dear all,

I'm having difficulty in finding a clear answer to the following 
challenge.

- I have some syntax that works in interactive mode.

- The same syntax fails in batch.

I think the reason is that some lines are too long.
-  The lines contain filenames enclosed in quotes.
-  One solution is to use file references however I still
need to know the answer to the original problem. )

Two questions:

1) How do you delimit a long line of syntax?

2) Will it still work in interactive mode?

TIA

M


Magnus McGee
Senior Statistician
Health Services Research Unit
University of Aberdeen
Foresterhill
Aberdeen
AB25 2ZD

Tel: 01224 559219
Fax: 01224 663087
mailto:magnus.mcgee@abdn.ac.uk
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/hsru