JEP 378: Text Blocks涵盖了此功能，并且包含在JDK 15中。它最初出现在JDK 13中的JEP 355: Text Blocks(预览)和JDK 14中的JEP 368: Text Blocks(第二预览)，可以在这些版本中通过——enable-preview javac选项启用。

语法允许这样写:

String s = """
           text
           text
           text
           """;

在此之前，在JDK 12中，JEP 326: Raw String Literals旨在实现类似的功能，但最终被撤回:

请注意:这原本是JDK 12中的预览语言功能，但它已被撤回，并没有出现在JDK 12中。它在JDK 13中被文本块(JEP 355)所取代。

Java 13预览:

Text Blocks Come to Java. Java 13 delivers long-awaited multiline string by Mala Gupta With text blocks, Java 13 is making it easier for you to work with multiline string literals. You no longer need to escape the special characters in string literals or use concatenation operators for values that span multiple lines. Text block is defined using three double quotes (""") as the opening and closing delimiters. The opening delimiter can be followed by zero or more white spaces and a line terminator.

例子:

 String s1 = """
 text
 text
 text
 """;

你可以使用scala-code，它与java兼容，并且允许用""" "括起来的多行字符串:

package foobar
object SWrap {
  def bar = """John said: "This is
  a test
  a bloody test,
  my dear." and closed the door.""" 
}

(注意字符串内的引号)和来自java:

String s2 = foobar.SWrap.bar ();

这样是否更舒服?

另一种方法，如果你经常处理长文本，应该放在你的源代码中，可能是一个脚本，它从外部文件中获取文本，并将其包装为一个多行java- string，像这样:

sed '1s/^/String s = \"/;2,$s/^/\t+ "/;2,$s/$/"/' file > file.java

这样你就可以很容易地复制粘贴到你的源代码中。

    import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;

    String multiline = StringUtils.join(new String[] {
        "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times ", 
        "it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness",
        "it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity",
        "it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness",
        "it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair",
        "we had everything before us, we had nothing before us",
        }, "\n");

在Eclipse中，如果你打开选项“在粘贴到字符串文字时转义文本”(在Preferences > Java > Editor > Typing中)并在引号中粘贴一个多行字符串，它将自动为你的所有行添加“和\n”+。

String str = "paste your text here";

如果你在属性文件中定义字符串，它看起来会更糟糕。IIRC，它看起来像:

string:text\u000atext\u000atext\u000a

一般来说，在源代码中不嵌入大字符串是一个合理的想法。您可能希望将它们作为资源加载，可能以XML或可读的文本格式加载。文本文件可以在运行时读取，也可以编译成Java源代码。如果你最终把它们放在源代码中，我建议把+放在前面，省略不必要的新行:

final String text = ""
    +"text "
    +"text "
    +"text"
;

如果你有新的行，你可能需要一些join或格式化方法:

final String text = join("\r\n"
    ,"text"
    ,"text"
    ,"text"
);