[Lazarus] Right click, paste as string?

Mattias Gaertner nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de
Sat Apr 21 11:50:21 CEST 2012


On Sat, 21 Apr 2012 11:40:28 +0200
Reinier Olislagers <reinierolislagers at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi list,
> 
> When working with e.g. multiline SQL statements, sometimes I want to
> copy them to a string in Lazarus, e.g from something like:
> const
>   SQL =
> with this on the clipboard:
> SELECT
> c.colid as recno,
> o.name as TableName,
> c.name as FieldName,
> c.colorder as FieldPosition,
> t.name as FieldType,
> c.scale as FieldScale,
> c.prec as FieldPrecision,
> c.isnullable as FieldNull
> FROM sys.syscolumns c
> INNER JOIN sys.sysobjects o ON c.id = o.id
> INNER JOIN sys.systypes t ON c.xtype = t.xtype and c.usertype=t.usertype
> WHERE (o.type='V' or o.type='U') and o.name='MEDEWERKERS'
> ORDER BY o.name, c.colorder
> 
> to something like:
> Const
>   SQL =
>     'SELECT'+
>     'c.colid as recno,'+
>     'o.name as TableName,'+
>     'c.name as FieldName,'+
>     'c.colorder as FieldPosition,'+
>     't.name as FieldType,'+
>     'c.scale as FieldScale,'+
>     'c.prec as FieldPrecision,'+
>     'c.isnullable as FieldNull'+
>     'FROM sys.syscolumns c'+

Maybe line breaks to spaces?


>     'INNER JOIN sys.sysobjects o ON c.id = o.id'+
>     'INNER JOIN sys.systypes t ON c.xtype = t.xtype and
> c.usertype=t.usertype'+
>     'WHERE (o.type='V' or o.type='U') and o.name=''MEDEWERKERS'''+
>     'ORDER BY o.name, c.colorder';
> 
> 
> I.e. indenting, appending quotes and + sign, and escaping existing
> quotes. (In this case, it's SQL and having an extra space at the end of
> the line before the closing quote would be even nicer but that's
> something of a special case)
> 
> Is that possible in Lazarus?

No.
But it is easy to write an IDE plugin that does that.

Mattias




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