Java 11 and 12 – New Features

The delimiter (backtick)

A raw string literal is defined as follows:

RawStringDelimeter {RawStringCharacters} RawStringDelimeter 

A backtick is used as the delimiter for raw string literals. I believe that using ` for raw string literals is a good decision. The ` backtick looks like ' (a single quote) and " (a double quote), which have been used as delimiters for character and string literals. The ` backtick will help Java programmers to easily see it as a delimiter for raw strings.

A raw string literal uses ` as a delimiter. A traditional string literal uses " as a delimiter and a character uses ' as a delimiter.

If you wish to include one backtick as a part of the string value, you can use two backticks (``) to define your value. This works ...