Triple-quoted Strings

Achieving better formatting and make it easier to work with regexes with triple-quoted strings, trimIndent and trimMargin

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This article is part of the Kotlin Primer, an opinionated guide to the Kotlin language, which is indented to help facilitate Kotlin adoption inside Java-centric organizations. It was originally written as an organizational learning resource for Etnetera a.s. and I would like to express my sincere gratitude for their support.

It is recommended to read the Introduction before moving on. Check out the Table of Contents for all articles.

Learn about the different string literals and string templates in Kotlin.

You can use the handy library functions trimIndent and trimMargin to format multiline triple-quoted strings in accordance with the surrounding code.

If you want, replace the trimIndent call bellow with a trimMargin call taking # as the prefix value, so that the resulting string doesn't contain the prefix…