1.2. Creating Multiline Strings

val foo = """This is
    a multiline
    String"""

This is
    a multiline
    String

You can solve this problem in several different ways. First, you can left-justify every line after the first line of your string:

val foo = """This is
a multiline
String"""

val speech = """Four score and
               |seven years ago""".stripMargin

If you don’t like using the | symbol, you can use any character you like with the stripMargin method:

val speech = """Four score and
               #seven years ago""".stripMargin('#')

All of these approaches yield the same result, a multiline string with each line of the string left justified:

Four score and
seven years ago

val speech = """Four score and
               |seven years ago
               |our fathers""".stripMargin.replaceAll("\n", " ")

This yields:

Four score and seven years ago our fathers

Another nice feature of Scala’s multiline string syntax is that you can include single- and double-quotes without having to escape them:

val s = """This is known as a
        |"multiline" string
        |or 'heredoc' syntax.""". stripMargin.replaceAll("\n", " ")

This results in this string:

This is known as a "multiline" string or 'heredoc' syntax.