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

An alternative I haven't seen as answer yet is the java.io.PrintWriter.

StringWriter stringWriter = new StringWriter();
PrintWriter writer = new PrintWriter(stringWriter);
writer.println("It was the best of times, it was the worst of times");
writer.println("it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness,");
writer.println("it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity,");
writer.println("it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness,");
writer.println("it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair,");
writer.println("we had everything before us, we had nothing before us");
String string = stringWriter.toString();

Also the fact that java.io.BufferedWriter has a newLine() method is unmentioned.