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diff --git a/docs/markdown/Syntax.md b/docs/markdown/Syntax.md index 666d50e..8db7bb3 100644 --- a/docs/markdown/Syntax.md +++ b/docs/markdown/Syntax.md @@ -16,9 +16,10 @@ statements* and *includes*. Usually one Meson statement takes just one line. There is no way to have multiple statements on one line as in e.g. *C*. Function and method calls' argument lists can be split over multiple lines. Meson -will autodetect this case and do the right thing. In other cases you -can get multi-line statements by ending the line with a `\`. Apart -from line ending whitespace has no syntactic meaning. +will autodetect this case and do the right thing. + +In other cases, *(added 0.50)* you can get multi-line statements by ending the +line with a `\`. Apart from line ending whitespace has no syntactic meaning. Variables -- @@ -136,6 +137,24 @@ str2 = 'xyz' combined = str1 + '_' + str2 # combined is now abc_xyz ``` +#### String path building + +*(Added 0.49)* + +You can concatenate any two strings using `/` as an operator to build paths. +This will always use `/` as the path separator on all platforms. + +```meson +joined = '/usr/share' / 'projectname' # => /usr/share/projectname +joined = '/usr/local' / '/etc/name' # => /etc/name + +joined = 'C:\\foo\\bar' / 'builddir' # => C:/foo/bar/builddir +joined = 'C:\\foo\\bar' / 'D:\\builddir' # => D:/builddir +``` + +Note that this is equivalent to using [`join_paths()`](Reference-manual.md#join_paths), +which was obsoleted by this operator. + #### Strings running over multiple lines Strings running over multiple lines can be declared with three single |