Convenient way to wrap long SQL statements in javascript

Question

In python, one can use \"\"\" to wrap long MySQL statements. For example,

sql = \"\"\"CREATE TABLE EMPLOYEE (
         FIRST_NAME  CHAR(20) NOT NULL,
         L         


        

Answer 1

Dealing with long strings in JavaScript:

var sql = "CREATE TABLE EMPLOYEE (" +
             " FIRST_NAME  CHAR(20) NOT NULL," +
             " LAST_NAME  CHAR(20)," +
             " AGE INT," +
             " SEX CHAR(1)," +
             " INCOME FLOAT )";

Python's triple quotes are great! Unfortunately, in JavaScript, you have only two options:

• + based concatenation, as above
• \ based continuation, as proposed by @Nina Scholz

Personally, I don't like using \ for line continuation (in any language.) Using + doesn't introduce unnecessary spaces in your string either.

Hope this helps.