Writing a long string in multiple lines – c#

Writing a big string will always produce scrollbars in the editor. So it’s better to split it to multiple lines which is more easy to read. This post discusses the various methods that can be used to split big lines into multiple lines.

Check this big line.

string BigLine = "bla bla  bla bla  bla bla  bla bla
bla bla  bla bla  bla bla  bla bla ";

Writing a string as shown above will produce error. This can be rewritten like

string BigLine = @"bla bla  bla bla  bla bla  bla bla
bla bla  bla bla  bla bla  bla bla ";

Or

string</font> BigLine = "bla bla  bla bla  bla bla  bla bla " +
"bla bla  bla bla  bla bla  bla bla ";

I always prefer the second one. Because first one will not move the next line to the starting of first line. And more over it won’t be possible to write first method for the following type of string.

string BigLine = @"bla bla  bla bla  bla bla  bla bla
bla bla  bla bla  bla bla\"test\"  bla bla ";

In this I am escaping " by specifying \. But .NET editor will produce an error.