Does Java have the '@' character to escape string quotes?

Question

My string has double quotes in it, in C# I would do:

string blah = @\"this is my \"\"text\";

how would I do that in Java?

Answer 1

There is nothing like it currently, but it is a "Fix understood" request for enhancement.

• Bug ID 4472509: Add support for vertabim(sic) string literals

If added, this feature would allow such string literals:

String qry = @"
   SELECT
     a.name, b.number
   FROM
     User a, Data b
   WHERE
     a.name = "James"
      AND
     a.id = b.id
";

Some of the comments reject this principally on the fact that it's a syntactic sugar, but obviously there's high demand for it, so it's possible that we'll see this someday.