一个简单的选择是使用SciTE (http://www.scintilla.org/SciTEDownload.html)这样的编辑器编辑java代码，它允许您对文本进行WRAP，以便容易地查看和编辑长字符串。如果你需要转义字符，你只需输入它们。通过关闭“换行”选项，您可以检查字符串是否仍然是一个很长的单行字符串。当然，如果不是，编译器也会告诉你。

Eclipse或NetBeans是否支持编辑器中的文本包装，我不知道，因为它们有太多的选项。但如果没有，这将是一个很好的补充。

使用Properties.loadFromXML (InputStream)。不需要外部库。

比起混乱的代码(因为可维护性和设计是您所关心的)，最好不要使用长字符串。 从读取xml属性开始:

 InputStream fileIS = YourClass.class.getResourceAsStream("MultiLine.xml");
 Properties prop = new Properies();
 prop.loadFromXML(fileIS);

然后，您可以使用您的多行字符串在一个更可维护的方式…

static final String UNIQUE_MEANINGFUL_KEY = "Super Duper UNIQUE Key";
prop.getProperty(UNIQUE_MEANINGFUL_KEY) // "\n    MEGA\n   LONG\n..."

MultiLine.xml`位于同一个文件夹YourClass:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE properties SYSTEM "http://java.sun.com/dtd/properties.dtd">

<properties>
    <entry key="Super Duper UNIQUE Key">
       MEGA
       LONG
       MULTILINE
    </entry>
</properties>

注:你可以使用<![CDATA[”…"]]>为类似xml的字符串。

我还没有看到的另一个答案是java.io.PrintWriter。

StringWriter stringWriter = new StringWriter();
PrintWriter writer = new PrintWriter(stringWriter);
writer.println("It was the best of times, it was the worst of times");
writer.println("it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness,");
writer.println("it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity,");
writer.println("it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness,");
writer.println("it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair,");
writer.println("we had everything before us, we had nothing before us");
String string = stringWriter.toString();

此外，java.io.BufferedWriter有一个newLine()方法的事实也未被提及。

我有时使用一个并行groovy类来充当一个字符串包

这里的java类

public class Test {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.out.println(TestStrings.json1);
        // consume .. parse json
    }
}

以及TestStrings.groovy中令人垂涎的多行字符串

class TestStrings {
    public static String json1 = """
    {
        "name": "Fakeer's Json",
        "age":100,
        "messages":["msg 1","msg 2","msg 3"]
    }""";
}

当然，这只适用于静态字符串。如果我必须在文本中插入变量，我会将整个文件更改为groovy。只要保持强类型实践，它就可以实现。

后期模型JAVA对+和常量字符串进行了优化，在幕后使用了StringBuffer，所以你不想让它使你的代码变得混乱。

它指出了JAVA的一个疏忽，它不像ANSI C在双引号字符串之间只有空白的自动连接，例如:

const char usage = "\n"
"Usage: xxxx <options>\n"
"\n"
"Removes your options as designated by the required parameter <options>,\n"
"which must be one of the following strings:\n"
"  love\n"
"  sex\n"
"  drugs\n"
"  rockandroll\n"
"\n" ;

我想有一个多行字符数组常量，其中嵌入换行是光荣的，所以我可以在没有任何混乱的情况下呈现块，例如:

String Query = "
SELECT
    some_column,
    another column
  FROM
      one_table a
    JOIN
      another_table b
    ON    a.id = b.id
      AND a.role_code = b.role_code
  WHERE a.dept = 'sales'
    AND b.sales_quote > 1000
  Order BY 1, 2
" ;

要做到这一点，需要打败JAVA之神。

看到所有的答案，我认为没有人提到比在java的新版本，你可以这样做:

String s = """
    This
    is 
    a
    multiline
    string
    """;
System.out.println(s);

这是它打印的内容:

This
is
a
multiline
string