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Multiline String Literal in C#

I’m probably not asking the right questions of Google to find my answer. I just want to keep my code neat without having a really long string on one line. I want to move to the next line without breaking the string.

cmd.CommandText = "UPDATE players SET firstname = CASE id WHEN 1 THEN 'Jamie' WHEN 2 THEN 'Steve' WHEN 3 THEN 'Paula' END WHERE id IN (1,2,3)";

For example, I would like to break this into two lines without affecting the string. All help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

I suspect what you want is to use the @ for verbatim string literals; the advantage of verbatim strings is that escape sequences are not processed, and that they can span multiple lines.

cmd.CommandText = @"UPDATE players 
                    SET firstname = 
                      CASE id 
                        WHEN 1 THEN 'Jamie' 
                        WHEN 2 THEN 'Steve' 
                        WHEN 3 THEN 'Paula' 
                      END 
                    WHERE id IN (1,2,3)";