Lockdown Learning – Day #1 – Java 13 – Text blocks (Multiline String)

Multi-line strings in Java are finally here in the form of Text blocks. It’s available as a preview feature. So you need to use the switches ––enable-preview and ––release 13 or –release 14 while compiling and executing this code.

public class TextBlocks  {
     public static void main(String[] args) {
	String message = """
	     Corona Alert!!!
				
	     Lockdown for 21 days!
	     Stay calm!	
	""";	
	
        System.out.println(message);
    }
}

Compile it using

javac ––enable-preview ––release 13 TextBlocks.java

And when you run it java –enable-preview TextBlocks, you get the following output with the formatting preserved. The compiler also works towards removing trailing whitespaces and meaningless indentations.