Erik Price schrieb:
> I have a Java class that has a kind of large SQL query. Right now it is
> a series of concatenated strings, occupying about twenty lines of my
> source code file. Performance is not a concern to me at this point, but
> I would like to store the SQL query string in a Properties file so that
> it does not clutter my code. However, I can't find a reference to
> acceptable Properties file syntax -- is it allowed to have multiline
> property values? Like this:
>
> # jdbc.sql.properties
> com.erikprice.sql.select=SELECT some_value,
> some_other_value,
> yet_another_value
> FROM some_table
> WHERE some_condition
>
Although this is not a JDBC question :-)
The Properties class supports the line continuation character \
com.erikprice.sql.select=SELECT some_value, \
some_other_value, \
yet_another_value \
FROM some_table \
WHERE some_condition \
Thomas
