I have this program,

import std.stdio;
void main()
{
  char[][] t;
  t = [
        "ProjID",
        "id",
        "parent",
        "children",
        "login",
        "cust",
        "proj",
        "class",
        "bdate",
        "ddate",
        "edate",
        "pm",
        "lang",
        "vendor",
        "invoice",
        "ProjFund",
        "A_No",
        "notes",
        "status"
          "should give error"
      ];
  foreach (char[] s; t)
    writefln(s);
  writefln(t.length);
}

and it compiles and runs.  However, I forgot a comma after a status and so the last two strings get concatenated by the program. ie.

19:46:18.54>testarr
ProjID
id
parent
children
login
cust
proj
class
bdate
ddate
edate
pm
lang
vendor
invoice
ProjFund
A_No
notes
statusshould give error
19

Is this the correct behaviour?  Should not the compiler protest about a missing comma or a lack of ~?

back to D'ing...

thanks.

josé

It is a feature:
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/lex.html
From section "String Literals":

	The following are all equivalent:

	"ab" "c"
	r"ab" r"c"
	r"a" "bc"
	"a" ~ "b" ~ "c"
	\x61"bc"

jicman escribió:
> I have this program,
> 
> import std.stdio;
> void main()
> {
>   char[][] t;
>   t = [
>         "ProjID",
>         "id",
>         "parent",
>         "children",
>         "login",
>         "cust",
>         "proj",
>         "class",
>         "bdate",
>         "ddate",
>         "edate",
>         "pm",
>         "lang",
>         "vendor",
>         "invoice",
>         "ProjFund",
>         "A_No",
>         "notes",
>         "status"
>           "should give error"
>       ];
>   foreach (char[] s; t)
>     writefln(s);
>   writefln(t.length);
> }
> 
> and it compiles and runs.  However, I forgot a comma after a status and so the
> last two strings get concatenated by the program. ie.
> 
> 19:46:18.54>testarr
> ProjID
> id
> parent
> children
> login
> cust
> proj
> class
> bdate
> ddate
> edate
> pm
> lang
> vendor
> invoice
> ProjFund
> A_No
> notes
> statusshould give error
> 19
> 
> Is this the correct behaviour?  Should not the compiler protest about a
> missing comma or a lack of ~?
> 
> back to D'ing...
> 
> thanks.
> 
> jos�

That is the correct behaviour. Check this:

http://digitalmars.com/d/lex.html#StringLiteral

"Adjacent strings are concatenated with the ~ operator, or by simple juxtaposition."

Although now it seems to me that this "feature" is kind of buggy... isn't it?

Reply to Ary,
> That is the correct behaviour. Check this:
> 
> http://digitalmars.com/d/lex.html#StringLiteral
> 
> "Adjacent strings are concatenated with the ~ operator, or by simple
> juxtaposition."
> 
> Although now it seems to me that this "feature" is kind of buggy...
> isn't it?
> 

That comes from C which does this (most likely to make up for the lack of ~) and make things like this easy


"Error in file: "__FILE__"\n"

or for a more D like case

writef(\r\n);

Ary Manzana wrote:
> "Adjacent strings are concatenated with the ~ operator, or by simple juxtaposition."
> 
> Although now it seems to me that this "feature" is kind of buggy... isn't it?

Maybe syntax highlighting might help catch these. Otherwise strings in D are very handy since you don't have to mess with too many "s and 's.

jicman wrote:
> I have this program,
> 
> import std.stdio;
> void main()
> {
>   char[][] t;

That's a normal array, by the way, not an associative array.

L.