Creating a string scalar with line continuation

I'm passionately against breaking the 80'ish character width limit in code files. Therefore, I use line continuation ellipses heavily. I recently realized I can't find a (nice/non-redundant) way to create a string scalar with a line continuation.

myStr = ["Hello this is an extremely long sentence that would go ", ...
         "beyond my 80-character limit."];

Results in a 1x2 string array. Obviously,

myStr = string(['Hello this is an extremely long sentence that ', ...
                'would go beyond my 80-character limit.'])

gives me the desired output, but it feels redundant creating a char array then converting to a string array.

Any thoughts?

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

Replace the comma with a +

[Stephen23]

+1 Surely the square brackets are not required?:

myStr = "Hello this is an extremely long sentence that would go " + ...
        "beyond my 80-character limit."

[Walter Roberson]

Correct.

[Greg]

Ahh, thank you! Forgot about the + operator. This is why we ask questions on the forum. :-D

Answer 2

[ES]

myStr = ['Hello this is an extremely long sentence that would go ', ...
         'beyond my 80-character limit.'];
disp(myStr)
whos myStr

    Name       Size            Bytes  Class    Attributes

    myStr      1x84              168  char

[Greg]

This is a char array, not string.