Multi-line String Literals

We can also define multiline string literals without having to use + + for concatenation. Let's create a multiline string in the example 4b_MultilineString.kts:

val name = "Atrium"
val message = """This is an example of
 multiline String $name
"""
println(message)

The output is as follows:

Observe the indentation in the preceding example. If we don't want to use indentation, we can put | and use the trimMargin() function to trim the margin as follows:

val name = "Atrium"
val message = """This is an example of
 |multiline String $name
"""
println(message.trimMargin())

The output is as follows:

One more thing that we can do is customize the character that we are going to use for margin separation and pass it to the trimMargin() function as follows:

val name = "Atrium"
val message = """This is an example of
 ^multiline String $name
"""
println(message.trimMargin("^"))

This gives the following output: