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Micle Sergiu
Micle Sergiu

Reputation: 1

How to easily print ascii art in c (alternative for R"EOF()EOF"))

I like including ASCII art in my projects and until now I used to print it like this:

 printf (R "EOF(


    *               MMM8&&&            *
                  MMMM88&&&&&    .
                 MMMM88&&&&&&&
     *           MMM88&&&&&&&&
                 MMM88&&&&&&&&
                  MMM88&&&&&&
                    MMM8&&&      *
          |\___/|
         =) ^Y^ (=            .              '
          \  ^  /
           )=*=(       *
          /     \
          |     |
         /| | | |\
         \| | |_|/\
  _/\_//_// ___/\_/\_/\_/\_/\_/\_/\_
  |  |  |  | \_) |  |  |  |  |  |  | 
  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  
  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  
  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  

)EOF");

is there an alternative as easy to use as this for C?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 16190

Answers (1)

Basile Starynkevitch
Basile Starynkevitch

Reputation: 1

Just use literal strings. Of course, you'll need to encode some characters (notably quotes, double quotes, backslashes, newlines, etc...).

puts(
"    *               MMM8&&&            *\n"
"                  MMMM88&&&&&    .\n"
"                 MMMM88&&&&&&&\n"

and so on. Remember that puts is appending a final newline (you don't want to use printf, because some characters, notably %, have a special role, and because it is probably slower). If you don't want that final newline, consider also fputs.

In C and C++, two (or more) string literals are assembled in one.

BTW, you could also generate such C code, or perhaps have something which transforms any file (e.g. your ASCII art) into an initialization like 

const char data[] = { 0x20,

etc...

Upvotes: 4

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