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");

String.join

Java 8为Java .lang. string添加了一个新的静态方法，它提供了一个更好的选择:

String.join ( CharSequence分隔符， CharSequence进行…元素 ）

使用它:

String s = String.join(
    System.getProperty("line.separator"),
    "First line.",
    "Second line.",
    "The rest.",
    "And the last!"
);

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"
);

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。

当我读到多行语法确实是为jdk7计划的(在java存在了多少年之后?)时，我有点恼火。有趣的是，甚至还没有readAll()函数用于读取文件的完整内容(仅从jdk7读取，啊啊)，因此下面的代码读取单行。

/*
  MakeMultiline v1.0 (2010) - Free to use and copy.

  Small gadget to turn text blobs into one java string literal
  (doing the split in lines, adding \n at each end and enclosing
  in double quotes). Does escape quotes encountered in the text blob.

  Useful for working around missing multiline string syntax in java
  prior jdk7. Use with:

     java MakeMultiline "    "
  or
     java MakeMultiline "    " mytextfile.txt
*/

import java.io.*;

class MakeMultiline {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    try {
      // args[0]: indent
      // args[1]: filename to read (optional; stdin if not given)
      // Beware the nmb of newlines at the end when using stdin!

      String indent = (args.length > 0 ? args[0] : "");
      FileReader fr = null; BufferedReader br;
      if (args.length > 1)
        { fr =  new FileReader(args[1]); br = new BufferedReader(fr); }
      else
        { br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in)); }
      String s; String res = "";
      while((s = br.readLine()) != null) {
        if (res.length() > 0) res += " +\n";
        res += indent + "\"" + s.replace("\"", "\\\"") + "\\n\"";
      }
      br.close(); if (fr != null) fr.close();
      System.out.println(res + ";");
    }
    catch(Exception e) {
      System.out.println("Exception: " + e);
    }
  }
}

这对我来说是最快的解决办法。(2010-01-27)

另一种方法是将长字符串存储在外部文件中，然后将文件读入字符串。