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Assign to variable s a string literal consisting in several lines of text, including newlines.
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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.
#include <string>
std::string s = R"( Earth is a planet.
So is the Jupiter)";
string s = @"Huey
Dewey
Louie";
auto s = "One,
Two,
Three
";
auto s = `line1
line2
line3`;
auto s = r"line1
line2
line3";
var s = """A
multi-line
string""";
var s = '''A
multi-line
string''';
s = "Spanning
string
works"
s = ~S"""
This will print multiline
and escape char like \G
"""

s = """
multiline
heredoc
"""
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.
""";
import static java.lang.System.lineSeparator;
String s, n = lineSeparator();
s = "line 1" + n;
s = s + "line 2" + n;
s = s + "line 3" + n;
s = s + "line 4";
import java.util.Formatter;
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'
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' + sLineBreak + 'two' + sLineBreak + 'three'
end.
var 
  s: String;
begin
  s := '''
one
two
three
''';
end.
$s = "Perl normally allows
strings to contain newlines.";
$s = q{
There are a good few ways to create multiline
text strings in perl.
};
$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 = """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!"