来自Perl,我肯定错过了在源代码中创建多行字符串的“here-document”方法:

$string = <<"EOF"  # create a three-line string
text
text
text
EOF

在Java中,当我从头开始连接多行字符串时,我必须在每一行上使用繁琐的引号和加号。

有什么更好的选择吗?在属性文件中定义我的字符串?

编辑:有两个答案说StringBuilder.append()比加号更可取。谁能详细解释一下他们为什么这么想?在我看来,这一点也不可取。我正在寻找一种方法来解决多行字符串不是一级语言结构这一事实,这意味着我绝对不想用方法调用取代一级语言结构(字符串连接与加号)。

编辑:为了进一步澄清我的问题,我根本不关心性能。我关心的是可维护性和设计问题。


当前回答

    import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;

    String multiline = StringUtils.join(new String[] {
        "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times ", 
        "it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness",
        "it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity",
        "it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness",
        "it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair",
        "we had everything before us, we had nothing before us",
        }, "\n");

其他回答

如果你像我一样喜欢谷歌的番石榴,它可以提供一个相当干净的表示和一个很好的,简单的方法来不硬编码你的换行符:

String out = Joiner.on(newline).join(ImmutableList.of(
    "line1",
    "line2",
    "line3"));

从问题中还不完全清楚作者是否有兴趣处理某种需要有一些动态值的格式化大字符串,但如果是这种情况,像StringTemplate (http://www.stringtemplate.org/)这样的模板引擎可能非常有用。

下面是一个使用StringTemplate的简单代码示例。实际的模板("Hello, < name >")可以从外部纯文本文件加载。模板中的所有缩进都将被保留,不需要转义。

import org.stringtemplate.v4.*;
 
public class Hello {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        ST hello = new ST("Hello, <name>");
        hello.add("name", "World");
        System.out.println(hello.render());
    }
}

附注:为了可读性和本地化目的,从源代码中删除大块文本总是一个好主意。

我所知道的唯一方法是用加号连接多行

Java 13预览:

Text Blocks Come to Java. Java 13 delivers long-awaited multiline string by Mala Gupta With text blocks, Java 13 is making it easier for you to work with multiline string literals. You no longer need to escape the special characters in string literals or use concatenation operators for values that span multiple lines. Text block is defined using three double quotes (""") as the opening and closing delimiters. The opening delimiter can be followed by zero or more white spaces and a line terminator.

例子:

 String s1 = """
 text
 text
 text
 """;

我至少看到了一种应该避免使用外部文件处理长字符串的情况:如果这些长字符串是单元测试文件中的预期值,因为我认为测试应该始终以一种不依赖任何外部资源的方式编写。