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

If you like google's guava as much as I do, it can give a fairly clean representation and a nice, easy way to not hardcode your newline characters too:

String out = Joiner.on(newline).join(ImmutableList.of(
    "line1",
    "line2",
    "line3"));