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<i>EAGLE Help</i>
<h1><center>Whitespace</center></h1>
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Before a User Language Program can be executed, it has to be read in from
a file. During this read in process, the file contents is <i>parsed</i>
into tokens and <i>whitespace</i>.
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Any spaces (blanks), tabs, newline characters and
<a href=133.htm>comments</a> are considered <i>whitespace</i>
and are discarded.
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The only place where ASCII characters representing <i>whitespace</i>
are not discarded is within <a href=140.htm>literal strings</a>,
like in
<pre>
string s = "Hello World";
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where the blank character between <tt>'o'</tt> and <tt>'W'</tt> remains part
of the string.
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If the final newline character of a line is preceded by a backslash
(<tt>\</tt>), the backslash and newline character are both discarded,
and the two lines are treated as one line:
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"Hello \
World"
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is parsed as <tt>"Hello World"</tt>
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