On 15 May 2018, at 12.31, Paolo Di Tommaso <paolo.ditomm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > No. There's an important difference: raw strings do not escape any special > character ie. backlashes, dollars, back-ticks, etc. >
Ah, I didn't actually realize that Groovy's current '''multiline''' style interpreted \ escapes. Haven't used it much, I suppose. > This is very useful for DSLs when it's required to embed a piece of foreign > code (think for example Bash) into a string. With groovy multi-line string > you still need to escape a lot stuff, making very difficult for the user to > handle it. I totally agree, I was just wrong about the semantics of the '''multiline, non-interpolation string'''. -Jesper
