I am developing a text-based game and I want to make the title something catchy. I tried to use a text to ASCII converter to make a nice-looking title and then copy and paste it in my code to output it, but it didn't work.
Here is what I tried to do:
System.out.println("
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But it didn't seem to work. I know it works in JavaScript, but I was wondering if it would also work in Java.
String literal - is a string consists of zero or more characters enclosed in double quotes "myText".
It is not possible to create a multiline string literal in Java, precisely as you've tried it. According to the language specification it's a compile-time error, line termination is present in a string lateral.
String invalidLiteral = "line1
line2
..."; // will cause a compilation error
To make such string literal compile, line termination can be replaced with a new line character \n.
String validString = "line1\nline2\nline3";
The resulting string can become very long, in order to make it readable you can split the string into chunks concatenated with a plus sign +, appending a new line character \n to each chunk.
String validConcatinatedString = "line1\n" +
"line2\n" +
"line3";
Although it'll work, it might be tedious.
With Java 15 you can create a multiline string using text blocks available.
In order to create a text block, you need to enclose the target multiline text in triple double-quote characters """.
String myASCIIArt = """ // no text after the opening delimiter
Your amazing
ASCII art
here""";
Note that the opening delimiter """ should be immediately followed by the line termination, and the actual body of the text block always starts on the next line.