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> The '\' is only to indicate the compiler, that the next line is
> extending this line (as in the #define macros)

....which the OP didn't use. My fault, sorry for not looking exaclty.
Flame me, I'm unworthy to post here....

"Gernot Frisch" <> wrote:
> The original text:
> char as[]="asasd
> asdasd
> asdasd";
> had _no_ newline characters.

Since multi-line string constants are not defined in standard C++, it is
somewhat hard to tell what the standard semantics of the above string are.
I guess that there are at least three cases how the above string is
treated by different systems:
- it is an error
- it is a string with newlines
- it is a string without newline
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On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 15:04:16 +0200, "Gernot Frisch" <>
wrote in comp.lang.c++:

> > "now " "a " "lot " "of " "text"
> >
> > is equivalent to "now a lot of text".
> > In other words: The compiler will catanate individual string
> > literals into one literal on its own.
>
> Crap! 5 years of programming things like:
>
> printf(" Here\n\
> comes \
> my \
> text");
> and now you tell me I can add comments and indentination with "" ""...
> Bohooo.. All my pretty source code looks like a piece of #*%& because
> I didn't know that.
> -Gernot

Yes, since the very first 1989 ANSI C standard.

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"Dietmar Kuehl" <> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news: om...
> "Gernot Frisch" <> wrote:
> > The original text:
> > char as[]="asasd
> > asdasd
> > asdasd";
> > had _no_ newline characters.
>
> Since multi-line string constants are not defined in standard C++,
it is
> somewhat hard to tell what the standard semantics of the above
string are.
> I guess that there are at least three cases how the above string is
> treated by different systems:
> - it is an error
> - it is a string with newlines
> - it is a string without newline

Re-checked it: VC gives an error, gcc will add a newline.