Paste a multi-line Java String in Eclipse

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Unfortunately  Java has no syntax for multi-line string literals  No problem if the IDE makes it easy to work with constructs like     String x    CREATE TABLE TEST    n                  A INTEGER NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY   n                    What is the fastest way to paste a multi-line String from the clipboard into Java source using Eclipse  in a way that it automatically creates code like the above

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You can use this Eclipse Plugin  http   marketplace eclipse org node 491839  UIlr8ZDwCUm This is a multi-line string editor popup  Place your caret in a string literal press ctrl-shift-alt-m and paste your text

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See  Multiple-line-syntax  It also support variables in multiline string  for example   String name  zzg   String lines                SELECT            FROM user         WHERE name   name       System out println lines     Output   SELECT        FROM user     WHERE name  zzg

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If your building that SQL in a tool like TOAD or other SQL oriented IDE they often have copy markup to the clipboard   For example  TOAD has a CTRL M  which takes the SQL in your editor and does exactly what you have in your code above   It also covers the reverse    when your grabbing a formatted string out of your Java and want to execute it in TOAD   Pasting the SQL back into TOAD and perform a CTRL P to remove the multi-line quotes

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As far as i know this seems out of scope of an IDE  Copyin   you can copy the string and then try to format it using ctrl shift  F Most often these multiline strings are not used hard coded rather they shall be used from property or xml files which can be edited at later point of time without the need for code change

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Okay  I just found the answer  on Stackoverflow  no less    Eclipse has an option so that copy-paste of multi-line text into String literals will result in quoted newlines        Preferences Java Editor Typing   Escape text when pasting into a string literal

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The EclipsePasteAsJavaString plug-in allows you to insert text as a Java string by Ctrl   Shift   V  Example  Paste as usual via Ctrl V   some text    with tabs and new  lines  Paste as Java string via Ctrl Shift V   some text twith tabs r n     and new  r n     lines

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