Multiline string
A multiline string is a string literal or value whose text or source representation spans multiple lines.
Kotlin in Action, 2E
A triple-quoted string is a Kotlin string literal delimited by three quotation marks that preserves line breaks and does not interpret ordinary escape sequences.
- How it is used
- Embeds readable multiline content, regular expressions, paths, ASCII art, and expected test output.
- How deep it goes
- Explains delimiters, indentation cleanup, line endings, escape limitations, templates, and test usage without descending into compiler internals.
- Examples
- Uses path-matching patterns, ASCII art, Windows paths, HTML, JSON, and expected multiline test output.
- What you can do after
- Build readable Kotlin literals for multiline text, regular expressions, paths, and expected structured output.
Get Programming with JavaScript Next: New features of ECMAScript 2015, 2016, and beyond
A string literal form whose source text may span multiple lines, preserving line breaks and other whitespace in the literal text.
- How it is used
- Uses multiline template literals to make longer strings, especially product HTML, easier to read than concatenated strings.
- How deep it goes
- Defines multiline literals, distinguishes them from newline escapes, and demonstrates the resulting line break without exploring implementation internals.
- Examples
- Shows a two-line greeting and product HTML formatted across multiple lines.
- What you can do after
- Apply template literal syntax to write strings that span source lines, including readable HTML markup.
Get Programming: Learn to code with Python
- How it is used
- Uses triple-quoted strings to store multiline word data and write function documentation.
- How deep it goes
- Explains delimiters and embedded line breaks, then shows newline-based parsing and docstring structure.
- Examples
- Shows an art-word list, newline scanning, and a function docstring as concrete multiline-string examples.
- What you can do after
- Apply triple quotes to store multiline data or document a function with a readable docstring.
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Related concepts
- docstringused by · A docstring is a string literal associated with a program element that documents its purpose, interface, behavior, or usage for people and tools.
- regular expressionused by · A formal pattern notation that describes sets of strings and enables text to be matched, searched, extracted, or transformed.
- stringimplements · A string is a programming-language value representing an ordered sequence of characters or character units as text.
- newlineuses · A newline is a character or character sequence that marks the boundary between consecutive lines of text.
- string literalkind of · A string literal is source-code notation that directly represents a string value.
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