Re: [Fwd: [gnu.org #360648] patch for gettext - reading multiline from PHP]

[Bruno Haible]

Hello,

Martin Edlman wrote:
>       I've made a hack for x-php.c in the gettext package. It allows
> extracting multiline strings concatenated with the "." from PHP scripts.

This is already possible with xgettext version 0.17.

>       The patch has few limitations, please see it on this URL:
> http://an.y-co.de/en/software/xgettext-php-patch.php.

xgettext 0.17 does not have these limitations. Try:

$ cat > foo.php <<EOF
<?
   gettext("foo" . "bar");
   gettext ("part1" . // here is some comment
     " and part2");
   gettext ('single' . "doublequoted");
?>
EOF
$ xgettext -o - --omit-header foo.php
#: foo.php:2
msgid "foobar"
msgstr ""

#: foo.php:3
msgid "part1 and part2"
msgstr ""

#: foo.php:5
msgid "singledoublequoted"
msgstr ""


Thanks for this suggestion. It just happens that someone else (Jan Engelhardt)
reported the same feature as missing already, so it was implemented.

Bruno