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Anghel Leonard is a Chief Technology Strategist and independent consultant with 20+ years of experience in the Java ecosystem. In daily work, he is focused on architecting and developing Java distributed applications that empower robust architectures, clean code, and high-performance. Also passionate about coaching, mentoring and technical leadership. He is the author of several books, videos and dozens of articles related to Java technologies.
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6. Escaping quotes and line terminators in text blocks

Escaping double quotes is necessary only when we want to embed, in the text block, the sequence of three double quotes ("""), as follows:

String txt = """
             She told me 
                    \"""I have no idea what's going on\""" 
             """;

Escaping """ can be done with \""". There is no need to write \"\"\".

The resulting string will look like this:

She told me
        """I have no idea what's going on"""

Whenever you need to embed " or "", simply do it as follows:

String txt = """
             She told me 
                     "I have no idea what's going on"
             """;
String txt = """
             She told me 
                     ""...
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Anghel Leonard is a Chief Technology Strategist and independent consultant with 20+ years of experience in the Java ecosystem. In daily work, he is focused on architecting and developing Java distributed applications that empower robust architectures, clean code, and high-performance. Also passionate about coaching, mentoring and technical leadership. He is the author of several books, videos and dozens of articles related to Java technologies.
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