<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Yes, but with ", you need to escape " occurrences - which is a fairly common character - I'd say more common than |.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The trailing whitespace - why can't it just be included in the string automatically? Just for supporting comments?</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 3, 2017, at 11:19 AM, Adrian Zubarev <<a href="mailto:adrian.zubarev@devandartist.com" class="">adrian.zubarev@devandartist.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="bloop_markdown" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254);"><p style="margin: 15px 0px; -webkit-margin-before: 0px;" class="">This is almost the same as proposed, but we use<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><code style="font-family: Menlo, Consolas, 'Liberation Mono', Courier, monospace; font-size: 10pt; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248); color: inherit; border: 1px solid rgb(234, 234, 234); margin: 0px 2px; padding: 0px 5px; word-break: normal; word-wrap: normal; -webkit-margin-before: 0px;" class="">"</code><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>instead of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><code style="font-family: Menlo, Consolas, 'Liberation Mono', Courier, monospace; font-size: 10pt; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248); color: inherit; border: 1px solid rgb(234, 234, 234); margin: 0px 2px; padding: 0px 5px; word-break: normal; word-wrap: normal;" class="">|</code>, however you still don’t have trailing space characters covered like this.</p><div style="margin: 15px 0px;" class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div><div class="bloop_original_html" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254);"><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div id="bloop_sign_1491211064873042176" class="bloop_sign"><div style="font-family: helvetica, arial; font-size: 13px;" class="">-- <br class="">Adrian Zubarev<br class="">Sent with Airmail</div></div><br class=""><p class="airmail_on" style="margin: 15px 0px;">Am 3. April 2017 um 11:16:41, Charlie Monroe (<a href="mailto:charlie@charliemonroe.net" style="color: rgb(65, 131, 196); background-color: inherit; text-decoration: none;" class="">charlie@charliemonroe.net</a>) schrieb:</p><blockquote type="cite" class="clean_bq" style="margin: 15px 0px;"><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div class=""></div><div class="">You can. I wish I remembered the language this was in (not sure if it's in Scala), but you can do something like:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">let xml = '''<br class="">|<?xml version="1.0"?> <br class="">|<catalog> </div><div class="">| <...></div><div class="">|</catalog> <br class="">'''</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This way, if you care about the leading whitespace, you define the line beginning using "|".</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Two characters aren't harmful, but in my experience when working with HTML strings, etc. the quote-escaping is extremely tedious.</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="" style="margin: 15px 0px;"><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px;">On Apr 3, 2017, at 11:06 AM, Adrian Zubarev <<a href="mailto:adrian.zubarev@devandartist.com" class="" style="color: rgb(65, 131, 196); background-color: inherit; text-decoration: none;">adrian.zubarev@devandartist.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><div class="bloop_markdown" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254);"><p class="" style="margin: 15px 0px; -webkit-margin-before: 0px;">My main concern with this approach is that you don’t have any control about indent and you loose pre- and post spacing characters.</p><p class="" style="margin: 15px 0px;">A concatenating approach is a little tedious but it’s precise. In any situation a multi-lined string is not softly wrapped string, which implies that you will have to press enter for each new line you wish to have. IMHO adding two more characters for each line isn’t that harmful. ;-)</p><div class="" style="margin: 15px 0px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder" style="-webkit-margin-before: 0px;"></div></div><div class="bloop_original_html" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254);"><div id="bloop_customfont" class="" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px;"><br class=""></div><br class=""><div id="bloop_sign_1491210105294919936" class="bloop_sign"><div class="" style="font-family: helvetica, arial; font-size: 13px;">-- <br class="">Adrian Zubarev<br class="">Sent with Airmail</div></div><br class=""><p class="airmail_on" style="margin: 15px 0px;">Am 3. April 2017 um 10:49:02, Charlie Monroe (<a href="mailto:charlie@charliemonroe.net" class="" style="color: rgb(65, 131, 196); background-color: inherit; text-decoration: none;">charlie@charliemonroe.net</a>) schrieb:</p><blockquote type="cite" class="clean_bq" style="margin: 15px 0px;"><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div class=""></div><div class=""><span class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">While I long for multiline string literals, I'd also very like to see a different syntax as in many cases, these can be XML/HTML snippets and the use of quotes is ubiqituous. I'd very much like to see a variant where you can simply paste almost any string without escaping it.</span><div class=""><span class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">For example, Scala uses a tripple-quote syntax... As we've gotten rid of ' for character literals, we could use it for multiline strings?</span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Or possibly tripple-apostrophe for multiline strings?</span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">let xml = '''</span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><?xml version="1.0"?> </span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><catalog/> </span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">'''</span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><div class=""><span class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br class=""></span><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="" style="margin: 15px 0px;"><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px;"><span class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">On Apr 3, 2017, at 9:01 AM, Adrian Zubarev via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="" style="color: rgb(65, 131, 196); background-color: inherit; text-decoration: none;">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:</span></div><span class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span><div class="" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><div class="bloop_markdown" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254);"><p class="" style="margin: 15px 0px; -webkit-margin-before: 0px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-margin-before: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Hello Swift community,</span></p><p class="" style="margin: 15px 0px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-margin-before: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">on Github there is a PR for this proposal, but I couldn’t find any up to date thread, so I’m going to start by replying to the last message I found, without the last content.</span></p><p class="" style="margin: 15px 0px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-margin-before: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">I really like where this proposal is going, and my personal preference are *continuation quotes*. However the proposed solution is still not perfect enough for me, because it still lacks of precise control about the trailing space characters in each line of a multi-line string.</span></p><p class="" style="margin: 15px 0px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-margin-before: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Proposed version looks like this:</span></p><pre class="" style="margin: 15px 0px; font-family: Menlo, Consolas, 'Liberation Mono', Courier, monospace; font-size: 10pt; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248); color: inherit; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: auto; padding: 4px 8px; word-break: normal; word-wrap: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-margin-before: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><code class="swift" style="font-family: Menlo, Consolas, 'Liberation Mono', Courier, monospace; font-size: 10pt; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248); color: inherit; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-break: normal; word-wrap: normal; -webkit-margin-before: 0px;">let xml = "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>
"<catalog>
" <book id=\"bk101\" empty=\"\">
" <author>\(author)</author>
" <title>XML Developer's Guide</title>
" <genre>Computer</genre>
" <price>44.95</price>
" <publish_date>2000-10-01</publish_date>
" <description>An in-depth look at creating applications with XML.</description>
" </book>
"</catalog>
""
</code></span></pre><p class="" style="margin: 15px 0px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-margin-before: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">I would like to pitch an enhancement to fix the last tiny part by adding the escaping character ‘' to the end of each line from 1 to (n - 1) of the n-lined string. This is similar to what Javascript allows us to do, except that we also have precise control about the leading space character through ’"’.</span></p><p class="" style="margin: 15px 0px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-margin-before: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">The proposed version will become this:</span></p><pre class="" style="margin: 15px 0px; font-family: Menlo, Consolas, 'Liberation Mono', Courier, monospace; font-size: 10pt; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248); color: inherit; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: auto; padding: 4px 8px; word-break: normal; word-wrap: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-margin-before: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><code class="swift" style="font-family: Menlo, Consolas, 'Liberation Mono', Courier, monospace; font-size: 10pt; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248); color: inherit; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-break: normal; word-wrap: normal; -webkit-margin-before: 0px;">let xml = "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>\
"<catalog>\ // If you need you can comment here
" <book id=\"bk101\" empty=\"\">\
" <author>\(author)</author>\
" <title>XML Developer's Guide</title>\
" <genre>Computer</genre>\
" <price>44.95</price>\
" <publish_date>2000-10-01</publish_date>\
" <description>An in-depth look at creating applications with XML.</description>\
" </book>\
"</catalog>\
""
</code></span></pre><p class="" style="margin: 15px 0px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-margin-before: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Here is another example:</span></p><pre class="" style="margin: 15px 0px; font-family: Menlo, Consolas, 'Liberation Mono', Courier, monospace; font-size: 10pt; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248); color: inherit; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: auto; padding: 4px 8px; word-break: normal; word-wrap: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-margin-before: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><code class="swift" style="font-family: Menlo, Consolas, 'Liberation Mono', Courier, monospace; font-size: 10pt; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248); color: inherit; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-break: normal; word-wrap: normal; -webkit-margin-before: 0px;">let multilineString: String = "123__456__\ // indicates there is another part of the string on the next line
"__789_____\ // aways starts with `"` and ends with either `\` or `"`
"_____0_" // precise control about pre- and post-space-characters
let otherString = "\(someInstance)\ /* only comments are allowed in between */ "text \(someOtherInstance) text"
</code></span></pre><p class="" style="margin: 15px 0px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-margin-before: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">This is simply<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="-webkit-margin-before: 0px;"> </span><strong class="" style="-webkit-margin-before: 0px;">continuation quotes</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>combined with<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong class="">backslash concatenation</strong>.</span></p><div class="" style="margin: 15px 0px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder" style="-webkit-margin-before: 0px;"></div></div><div class="bloop_original_html" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254);"><div class="bloop_markdown"><div class="" style="-webkit-margin-before: 0px; 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