[DrJava] [ drjava-Feature Requests-623276 ] support "stringifying" source code

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Feature Requests item #623276, was opened at 2002-10-14 17:45
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Category: Definitions (source editor)
Group: Small (< 1 pair-week)
Status: Open
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Eric E. Allen (eallen)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: support "stringifying" source code

Initial Comment:
Story:

The user selects a multi-line block of text in the definitions pane. 
He then pulls down a menu item labelled "Make selected text into 
a String" and the highlighted text is wrapped in quotation marks. 
Because Java Strings cannot occur across multiple lines, each 
line is wrapped into separate quotation marks (with a "\n" added to 
the end of all quoted lines but the last), and the lines are 
concatenated. For example, if the user selected the text below:

(this is a (string)
 representation of a
 list)

It would become:

"(this is a (string)\n" +
" representation of a\n" +
" list)"

This functionality would be useful for writing tests over complex 
data structures. Often we want to check that the toString() 
representation of a data structure is what we expect. The 
expected form is easily retrieved from working code by calling 
toString() in the interactions pane, but the resultant String isn't 
quoted.

-- Eric


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