Java multiline string

Question

Coming from Perl, I sure am missing the \"here-document\" means of creating a multi-line string in source code:

$string = <<\"EOF\"  # create a three-l         


        

Answer 1

String newline = System.getProperty ("line.separator");
string1 + newline + string2 + newline + string3

But, the best alternative is to use String.format

String multilineString = String.format("%s\n%s\n%s\n",line1,line2,line3);