Question

I’m working on the project Euler problems, and #8 requires that you find the largest product of 5 consecutive numbers in a 1000-digit number. Does anyone know how I can format the number to be one long string over multiple lines instead of having it be one long string on one line?

Thanks!

Answer 1

The compiler will automatically concatenate string literals that are separated by white space. You can simply do:

const char bignum[] = 
    "73167176531330624919225119674426574742355349194934"
    ... more lines here ...
    "71636269561882670428252483600823257530420752963450";

The resulting character array will be the same as if you typed one very long string literal. A link for the lazy.