Question

I have several blocks of text that I need to be able to paste inline in my code for some unit tests. It would make the code difficult to read if they were externalized, so is there some web tool where I can paste in my text and it will generate the code for a StringBuffer that preserves it’s formatting? Or even a String, I’m not that picky at this point.

This seems like a code generator like this must exist somewhere on the web. I tried to Google one, but I have yet to come up with a set of search terms that don’t fill my results with Java examples and documentation.

I suppose I could write one myself, but I’m in a bit of a time crunch and would rather not duplicate effort.

Answer 1

If I understood it correctly, any text editor which supports regexps should make it an easy task. For instance Notepad++ – just replace ^(.+)$ with "\1"+, then copy the result to the code, remove the last + and add String s = to the beginning 🙂