How do I include extremely long literals in C++ source?

Question

I\'ve got a bit of a problem. Essentially, I need to store a large list of whitelisted entries inside my program, and I\'d like to include such a list directly -- I don\'t w

Answer 1

If it's only about twice the limit the obvious solution would seem to be to store 2 (or 3) such strings. :) I'm sure your code that reads them at runtime can deal with that easily enough.

EDIT: Do you need to use a regex for some reason? Could you break up the big strings into a list of individual tokens and do a simple string comparison?