Little known feature: you can indeed indent string content – by ending each line with a backslash. Leading spaces on the following line are stripped: let poem = “The lesser world was daubed\n\ By a colorist of modest skill\n\ A master limned you in the finest inks\n\ And with a fresh-cut quill.\n” You will still … Read more
Notepad++ can do that comfortably, you don’t even need regexes In the find dialogue box look in the bottom left and switch your search mode to Extended which allows \n etc. As odds on you’re working on a file in windows format you’ll be looking for \r\n (carriage return, newline) a\r\nb\r\nc Will find the pattern … Read more
I suggest using a combination of StringReader and my LineReader class, which is part of MiscUtil but also available in this StackOverflow answer – you can easily copy just that class into your own utility project. You’d use it like this: string text = @”First line second line third line”; foreach (string line in new … Read more
Okay, I just found the answer (on Stackoverflow, no less). Eclipse has an option so that copy-paste of multi-line text into String literals will result in quoted newlines: Preferences/Java/Editor/Typing/ “Escape text when pasting into a string literal”
Are you talking about multi-line strings? Easy, use triple quotes to start and end them. s = “”” this is a very long string if I had the energy to type more and more …””” You can use single quotes too (3 of them of course at start and end) and treat the resulting string … Read more