Triple Quoted Strings

Added by betson, last edited by dholton on Feb 16, 2005  (view change)

Triple quoted strings in Boo are used to preserve spacing and linebreaks without a thick slathering of \n's all over your precious code.

It is good for visually representing XML, for instance:

xml = """
<xml>
     <randomElement>
     </randomElement>
</xml>
"""

It is also most excellent for formatting console output:

name = prompt("Name: ")
age = prompt("Age: ")
sex = prompt("Sex: ")

print """

Hello, ${name}!

My name is Hal, and I will be your Operating System today.

My sensors indicate that you are a ${age} year old ${sex}

If you need any assistance navigating this user interface, please ask.

...

Humans are so fragile...

"""

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  1. Feb 17

    FrozenCow says:

    It should be noted that stringescaping will not work within triplequotes, like t...

    It should be noted that string-escaping will not work within triple-quotes, like this page does: http://boo.codehaus.org/Part+02+-+Variables#Part02-Variables-CharactersandStrings