[Qt-jambi-interest] Long dictionary class?

[Derek Fountain]

One of the annoying restrictions of Java, at least to those of us who 
frequent the worlds of Perl, PHP, etc., is the inability to define very 
long lines in the source. I have a SQL query that spans about 20 lines 
(and is growing in complexity by the day) and I want to embed it in my 
Java. I'm developing it inside a SQL tool and cut-n-pasting it into my 
Java source as I update it.

Only that's a pain in Java because I can't just drop it into the source 
- I have to wrap it up in string concatenations in order to span the 
multiple lines. I want to keep the multi-line formatting so it's 
readable in the Java source.

One way around this is to put the SQL string inside a text file, then 
access the contents of that text file from Java. Only I have several of 
these strings (they define reports) so what I really want is something 
that takes a text file like this:

[report1]
select * from
blah
blah
blah
blah

[report2]
select * from
this
that
etc

and so on. I ask for 'report1' and get the appropriate string.

I can write such a thing, but I wondered if Qt had something I might be 
able to use. It has just about everything else. :)

I just looked at QSettings - does that handle values that span lines? 
I'd rather not use XML unless I have to, I don't need that level of 
complexity. Any other options I should look at?