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Multiline strings in VB.NET

Is there a way to have multiline strings in VB.NET like Python

a = """
multi
line
string
"""

or PHP?

$a = <<<END
multi
line
string
END;

Of course something that is not

"multi" & _
"line
Solution

  • Multi-line string literals were introduced in Visual Basic 14 (in Visual Studio 2015).

    Dim s As String = "Hello
World & Space"

    For earlier versions of VB, you can use XML literals to achieve a similar effect:

    Imports System.XML
Imports System.XML.Linq
Imports System.Core

Dim s As String = <a>Hello
World</a>.Value

    Remember that if you have special characters, you should use a CDATA block:

    Dim s As String = <![CDATA[Hello
World & Space]]>.Value