Question

I’m creating an application using Visual Studio 2010 C#.

I have a string in-line in my code which causes the code to not compile. The string contains line breaks and so spans over multiple lines, rather than being on a single line.

What should I do so that I can keep the string with the line breaks but also make my code compile?

Answer 1

I think you need to use the @ sign before your string to allow it to be treated as a string literal and span multiple lines.

string myString = @"blah blah
                     blah blah
                     blah blah";

if your string contains the " character they need to be doubled as I don’t think that escaping will work in a string literal:

string myString = @"blah ""blah""
                     blah blah
                     ""blah"" blah";

read more about string literals in the spec here