Working with large text snippets in Java source

Question

Are there any good ways to work with blocks of text (Strings) within Java source code? Many other languages have heredoc syntax available to them, but Java does not. This ma

Answer 1

The closes option in Java to HereDoc is java.text.MessageFormat. You can not embed logic. It a simple value escape utility. There are no variables used. You have to use zero based indexing. Just follow the javadoc.

http://download.oracle.com/javase/1,5.0/docs/api/java/text/MessageFormat.html