I like to try and break my codelines into lengths long enough so I don't have to scroll horizontally. In most Perl situations, it's easy enough, just break the code statements into nice sets of short lines. However, I occaisionally run into a situation where this isn't possible. For instance:

In a Tk program, I'm sending some text to a label. The long statement might be something like: (The following is all one line, the pre tags are on purpose :-) ). 

$game{'board'}{'stat'} = "$playerin submits $game{'board'}{'proposedwo
+rduser'}  $game{'board'}{'proposedscore'} points";

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Now if I break this, the hidden newlines will be picked up by the Tk::Label widget, which I don't want.

So is it possible to put some kind of slash at the break points to indicate to ignore the newline? It really isn't a major problem for me, I was just wondering if there is a method which dosn't involve too much extra work.

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Edit by tye, replace PRE with CODE

In reply to breaking long code lines by zentara

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