RE: Multiline statement in iocsh

[Saeed Haghtalab via Tech-talk <tech-talk@aps.anl.gov>]

That’s right. I’ve put the comments in each line deliberately because I think since startup script mostly contains the commands and configuration (and not code) with many arguments and macro substitution, I think it makes sense to support inline comment in multiline statement in this case which helps in readability a lot.

Maybe semi multiline statement is a better term …

 

/Saeed

 

From: Ralph Lange via Tech-talk
Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2020 2:14 PM
To: EPICS Tech Talk
Subject: Re: Multiline statement in iocsh

 

On Wed, 15 Jan 2020 at 14:04, Saeed Haghtalab via Tech-talk <tech-talk@aps.anl.gov> wrote:

Is there any possibility to have multi-line statements in startup script like this:

 

dbLoadRecords(“myDb.db”, \     # First comment

                                “P=prefix, \         # Second comment

                                R=suffix”)            # third comment

 

Note that AFAIK multi-line statements in other interpreters (like shells) require the newline character to appear immediately after the backslash, so your example would *not* be a multi-line statement.

 

Cheers,
~Ralph