Idiom #48 Multi-line string literal
Assign to variable s a string literal consisting in several lines of text, including newlines.
Programming-Idioms
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s = ~S""" This will print multiline and escape char like \G """
s = """ multiline heredoc """
s = "Spanning string works"
var s = """A multi-line string""";
var s = '''A multi-line string''';
s : String := "Will this compile? " &
"Oh yes it will";
char *s = "Huey\n"
"Dewey\n"
"Louie";
(def s "Murs, ville, Et port, Asile De mort, Mer grise Où brise La brise, Tout dort.")
IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
PROGRAM-ID. multi-line string.
DATA DIVISION.
WORKING-STORAGE SECTION.
01 s PIC X(20).
01 str PIC X(5) VALUE 'COBOL'.
01 str1 PIC X(4) VALUE 'RULE'.
01 str2 PIC X(3) VALUE 'THE'.
01 str3 PIC X(5) VALUE 'WORLD'.
PROCEDURE DIVISION.
STRING str ' ' str1 ' ' str2 ' ' str3
DELIMITED BY SIZE INTO s
STOP RUN.
std::string s = R"( Earth is a planet. So is the Jupiter)";
string s = @"Huey Dewey Louie";
auto s = r"line1 line2 line3";
auto s = `line1 line2 line3`;
auto s = "One, Two, Three ";
S = "Strings may span across multiple lines" "and they can" "have as many portions" "as you want" "all of them quoted".
s = "Hello &
&World"
s := `Huey Dewey Louie`
def s = """line 1 line 2 line 3"""
def s = """\ line 1 line 2 line 3""".stripIndent()
s :: String
s = "We will put a backslash to take a break\
\and then a backslash to resume"
s = unlines [
"several"
,"lines"
,"of"
,"text"]
let s = "This is a very long string which needs \ to wrap across multiple lines because \ otherwise my code is unreadable.";
let s = `This is a very long string which needs to wrap across multiple lines because otherwise my code is unreadable.`;
let s = "This is a very long string which needs \n" +
"to wrap across multiple lines because \n" +
"otherwise my code is unreadable.";
String s = "This is a very long string which needs \n" +
"to wrap across multiple lines because \n" +
"otherwise my code is unreadable.";
String s = """ This is a very long string which needs to wrap across multiple lines because otherwise my code is unreadable. """;
String s, n = lineSeparator(); s = "line 1" + n; s = s + "line 2" + n; s = s + "line 3" + n; s = s + "line 4";
String s;
StringBuilder b = new StringBuilder();
Formatter f = new Formatter(b);
f.format("line 1%n");
f.format("line 2%n");
f.format("line 3%n");
f.format("line 4");
f.flush();
s = b.toString();
val s =
"""
This is my
multi-line string.
"""
(setf s "a b c d")
s = 'Huey \n'.. 'Dewey \n'.. 'Louie'
local s = "The quick brown fox \z
jumped over the lazy dog.\
This the second line. "
s = [[ Huey Dewey Louie ]]
NSString *s=@"Huey\n"
@"Dewey\n"
@"Louie";
$s = "This string is spanning three lines";
$s = <<<EOD Huey Dewey Louie EOD;
var _s: String; begin _s := 'one' + LineEnding + 'two' + LineEnding + 'three' end.
var s: String; begin s := ''' one two three '''; end.
var s: String; begin s := 'one' + sLineBreak + 'two' + sLineBreak + 'three' end.
$s =<<EOSTR; One of the ways to create multiline text is called the "here doc" (lifted from various UNIX shells). A 'here doc' is the <<tag construct. Perl continues to treat all the text found as part of the string until there's a line containing the EOSTR tag at the beginning EOSTR
$s = q{
There are a good few ways to create multiline
text strings in perl.
};
$s = "Perl normally allows strings to contain newlines.";
s = """Huey Dewey Louie"""
s = ('line 1\n'
'line 2\n'
'line 3\n'
'line 4')
s = "Spanning string works"
s = <<EOS This is a multi-line string. We call it a "heredoc" EOS
let s = r#"Huey Dewey Louie"#;
let s = "line 1 line 2 line 3";
val s = """line 1
|line 2
|line 3""".stripMargin
val s = """line 1 line 2 line 3"""
(define s "This is my multi-line literal. Line number two! This line starts with two spaces.")
s := 'Will this compile? Oh yes, it will!'.
Dim s as String = " This Is Multiline Text!"