What is a text block? - Cracking the Java Coding Interview

Cracking the #Java #Coding #Interview - Question 151: What is a text block?

[neilvonholtum]

This is much nicer than concatenating a bunch of strings with + and then manually aligning them to the same indentation.

[Gennys]

In point of fact. After the triple quote the first line determines how you indent it in the code that you're writing but in subsequent lines that's the actual indentation that isn't disregarded.

[whiz-code]

Yes I have used this text block in a springboot jdbc tempate application to write sql. Nice

[jay_]

0:31 That's not right, you still need to escape backslashes in a text block.
You can also add a single backslash at the end of a text block line to continue on the next line in the source code without a new line being added to the String.

[davidmurege]

I guess this is better to avoid concatenations. Especially when writing SQL queries

[jasondads]

I thought this was called multiline string
i thought last 3 quotes should be on their own line

[ahmedjaad]

Why did you have to complicate this feature?