multi-line constants? (for RSA keys)

[Dr. Hawkins]

On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 5:35 PM, Alex Tweedly <alex at tweedly.net> wrote:

> constant doesn't allow any form of expression, you can't even do
> constant mykey = "abc" & "def"
>

*sigh*

I was hoping that  was doing something wrong.


>
> A "clean" solution ?
>  - assign to a variable instead
>

This is what I've been doing

>  - custom prop
>  - since you're generating it externally - put it in a fixed-name file,
> and have your script read that file in
>

But then it would be readable :)

>
> btw if I take the above code, and convert from using a constant to a
> variable, I'd get
>    put "-----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-----" \
>       & "ABC123"\
>       & "DEF456"\
>       & "-----END PUBLIC KEY-----" into myVar
>
> but that means it's become a single line, instead of 4 lines.
> Should it be
>    put  "-----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-----" &CR& \
>       & "ABC123"  &CR& \
>       & "DEF456" &CR& \
>       & "-----END PUBLIC KEY-----" into myVar
>

Yes, I blew that typing it in . . .



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