Are multi-line strings allowed in JSON?

Question

Is it possible to have multi-line strings in JSON?

It\'s mostly for visual comfort so I suppose I can just turn word wrap on in my editor, but I\'m just kinda curious

Answer 1

Check out the specification! The JSON grammar's char production can take the following values:

• any-Unicode-character-except-"-or-\-or-control-character
• \"
• \\
• \/
• \b
• \f
• \n
• \r
• \t
• \u four-hex-digits

Newlines are "control characters" so, no, you may not have a literal newline within your string. However you may encode it using whatever combination of \n and \r you require.