Java Coding Problems

19. Declaring multiline strings (text blocks)

At the time of writing this book, JDK 12 had a proposal for adding multiline strings known as JEP 326: Raw String Literals. But this was dropped at the last minute.

Starting with JDK 13, the idea was reconsidered and, unlike the declined raw string literals, text blocks are surrounded by three double quotes, """, as follows:

String text = """My high school,the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy,showed me that anything is possibleand that you're never too young to think big.""";

Text blocks can be very useful for writing multiline SQL statements, using polyglot languages, and so on. More details can be found at https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/355.

Nevertheless, there are several surrogate ...