Is there a way to continue a single string on multiple lines without inserting \n
into the string?
For example
"a#some character here
b"
"ab"
The only methods I currently know of is
string("a",
"b")
I was wondering if there was an even more succinct shortcut.
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julia> """a
b
c
"""
"a\nb\nc\n"
Edit: uh… that’s not what you were asking for. I don’t think you can do that with a single string literal, no.
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What I meant was, can I type the string on multiple lines (for code formatting purposes) without there being any \n
in the string?
Technically
julia> "a"*
"b"*
"c"
"abc"
is more succinct. Otherwise see my edit above 
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Wow I feel really stupid for not having realized that, thanks.
In retrospect, what I was looking for was not necessarily something more “succinct”, but something for which I wouldn’t have to stick string
into the first line forcing me to reformat everything, your solution satisfies that, thanks.
Alternatively:
macro W_str(s)
:(replace($(esc(s)), r"\n+" => " "))
end
julia> W"""
a
b
c
"""
"a b c "
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