C++ Weekly - Ep 183 - Start Using Raw String Literals

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[wintermute]

Raw strings are awesome. I use them frequently to "embed" GLSL code into C++ source code.

[EpicSnakes]

I'm working with C++ for 2 years and I still learn about syntax ! Thx.

[pazdziochowaty]

Raw strings are life saving for complex regular expressions. No escaping \, "etc. You can write regex directly, just like in perl which is much more readable.
I use them also for complex SQL queries which can now have multiple lines without making each of them a separate literal and relying on pasting adjacent literals

[GoatTheGoat]

Please post a link to the .vimrc that enables extra language syntax highlighting inside raw string literals. That sounds like the bomb!

[jankodedic]

Very useful for writing shaders. clang-format also supports them.

[danielphd]

Thank you Jason for your time to do this video. I appreciate #cpp #cpp17 #cpp11 #cpp20 #cplusplus

[generalguderian]

Great Tutorial! I like how you get straight to the point !

[canberksonmez]

For those who are new to using vim like a pro, I would be glad if you could share your vim configuration which parses raw string literals.

[Oaisus]

I wish there was a feature in youtube to set a channel to default at a different playback speed. These videos are very informative but they're hard to pay attention to at anything slower than 1.5x speed.

[LittleGnawer]

Great! I never heard or read about that feature.

[trevorschrock]

This is very relevant t my interests. Somehow this had missed me entirely. I have lots of
"This is one line\n\
this is another." Gross, I'll be happy to fix these!

[axelBr]

In mid 2000s I was writing code that generated output in HTML. Oh the fun of writing HTML and CSS using single lines of c++.

[nmmm]

I definitely saw that R before, but I have forgotten it. Thanks

[atimholt]

I once used a raw string literal to output code I had written in an online C++ editor. For some reason, copying from the input textbox was not allowed, but copying from output was. I wrapped the entire thing in raw string delimiters and stuck it within just enough “Hello World” code to get what I wanted.

[platin]

I really like them use it a lot but one of the rare language implemented features.

[bwatspro]

When you said we can use custom tokens to terminate string literals, I was like !!!" no more backslash, quote name collisions... actually this language design f*cked me so hard when I was working with ASCII symbols inside C++

[Nyarmith]

template<unsigned X> important parts of c++17 in X minutes

[RamkrishanYT]

Is there any advantage of this over say the tripple quote string?

[brotherhood_of_harkonnen]

Is it correct to say that raw strings are wysiwyg strings?

[Ultranium]

I wonder why they chose parenthesis for this. I know you can define your own prefix, it's just there are many much rarely used characters than parenthesis.