> Ref http://digitalmars.com/d/2.0/lex.html > > What are some possible use cases for delimited strings? > What is solved by having this in the language?
It's probably so that you can still use characters that require escaping in the string without having to escape " everywhere. WYSIWYGS don't allow for escaping characters, which can be annoying periodically. Still, delimited strings do seem a bit funny to me, and I don't think that I've ever used them. Presumably, they solved some problem fairly nicely, but the only thing that I can think of is that they still allow for characters that require escaping but don't force you to escape ", which could be very useful in strings with lots of "s and other characters that need escaping. - Jonathan M Davis
