I have a very long line in fmt.Sprintf. How do I split it in the code? I don't want to put everything in a single line so the code looks ugly.
fmt.Sprintf("a:%s, b:%s ...... this goes really long")
Use string concatenation to construct a single string value on multiple lines:
fmt.Sprintf("a:%s, b:%s " +
" ...... this goes really long",
s1, s2)
You can split the string at contained newlines using a raw string literal:
fmt.Sprintf(`this text is on the first line
and this text is on the second line,
and third`)
Why don't you split it out:
fmt.Sprintf("a:%s, b:%s ", x1, x2)
fmt.Sprintf("...... ")
fmt.Sprintf("this goes really long")
Or you can split them out with the plus sign as indicated by MuffinTop.
Since you're using Sprintf
already (meaning you'll have a string like "this is the string with %s placeholders in it") you could just add more place holders to the string and then put the values you'd like there on their own lines like;
fmt.Sprintf("This %s is so long that I need %s%s%s for the other three strings,
"string",
"some super long statement that I don't want to type on 50 lines",
"another one of those",
"yet another one of those")
Another option is just to use string concatenation like "string 1" + "string 2"
.
You can also use raw string literals inside backticks, like this:
columns := "id, name"
table := "users"
query := fmt.Sprintf(`
SELECT %s
FROM %s
`, columns, table)
fmt.Println(query)
There are a few caveats to this approach:
FROM
clause in this query.These problems can be a challenge for some, and the whitespace will produce some ugly resulting strings. However, I prefer this approach as it allows you to copy and paste long, complex SQL queries outside of your code and into other contexts, like sql worksheets for testing.