Defining a string over multiple lines

Question

Please take the following:

char buffer[512];

memset(buffer, 0, sizeof(buffer));
sprintf(&buffer[0],\"This Is The Longest String In the World that in tex         


        

Answer 1

The newline continuation takes into account any whitespace within the code.

You can take advantage of string literal concatenation for better readability:

sprintf(buffer, "This Is The "
                "Longest String In the World "
                "that in text goes on and..");

Using \ you'll need to begin the continuation of your string at column 0:

sprintf(buffer, "This Is The \
Longest String In the World \
that in text goes on and..");