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On 12/10/2012 8:43 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>
> It could be added....
>
> But I would not consider it a high priority.
>
> It is most useful for demo code.
>
> For real code then large chunks of texts would usually
> be stored externally (file, DB etc.) not embedded into
> the code.

I think nobody has mentioned this funny little hack, which just
might be suitable for demo code and unit tests. It requires that the
source code using the multi-line string be accessible in the file
system at run time.

http://blog.efftinge.de/2008/10/multi-line-string-literals-in-java.html

I do believe the blog was posted in a humorous spirit.

-- Sebastian