Printing multiline text strings 1

[siberian]

Is there an easy method of printing multi-line text?

So, instead of

out.println('Dear Sir,');
out.println('It has come to our attention that you are');
out.println('not paying your bills! This is a terrible');
out.println('and horrible thing and we think you shoud');
out.println('be aware of the hideous consequences of');
out.println('your gambling debt.');

In 'some other languages' you can just go

print <<EOF;
blalsdfaf
rfgewrgwegwegwer
gewrgwergewrgewr gwerg ewrg
wergwer gewrg werg werg werg

EOF

Is there a java equivelant?

Thanks

 

[sedj]

Use \n carriage returns :

System.out.println(&quot;Bla, bla \n Bla bla \n Bla bla&quot;

Will render :

Bla bla
Bla bla
Bla bla

 

[frag]

Sorry, but I don't know an equivelant to your code. But you could use an escape charater (\n) instead:

out.println("Dear Sir,\nIt has come to our attention that you are\nnot paying your bills! This is a terrible\nand horrible thing and we think you shoud\nbe aware of the hideous consequences of\nyour gambling debt.\n");

As you can see the text is hard to read now...

patrick.metz@epost.de

 

[frag]

uups... sedj was quicker

patrick.metz@epost.de

 

[irfin]

Just want to give some alternative, to make it easy when you have to write

System.out.println

several times. Because it's quite long to type it ;p

public static void printf (Object str) {
   System.out.print (str);
}

So instead of using System.out.println (or print), you can simply use the above printf function

 printf ("Dear Sir,\n");
 printf ("It has come to our attention that you are");
 // and so on...

Hmm.. why not try to store the string you want to print in variable first and then pass it to System.out.println or printf

String msg;

msg = "Dear sir,\nIt has come to our attention that you are \nnot paying your bills!\n ....";

printf (msg);

 

[Cagliostro]

out.println(
&quot;Dear Sir,\nIt has come to our attention that&quot; +
&quot;you are\nnot paying your bills! This is a terrible\nand&quot; +
&quot; horrible thing and we think you shoud\nbe aware of the&quot; +
&quot; hideous consequences of\nyour gambling debt.\n&quot;

Ion Filipski

 

[siberian]

I think Ion came closest to what I am looking for. Its not a 'how do I print multiple lines', its a 'how to I print multiple lines without having to type the print command a bazillion times

Thanks all!