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Paul King updated GROOVY-9442:
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> Support for the new JDK14 string escape sequence (\s for single space)
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> Key: GROOVY-9442
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GROOVY-9442
> Project: Groovy
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: GEP
> Reporter: Paul King
> Priority: Major
> Attachments: screenshot-1.png
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> The goal is to add {{\s}} as an additional escape sequence for single and
> double quoted strings.
> {code}
> assert 'ab\scd\s'.bytes == [97, 98, 32, 99, 100, 32]
> {code}
> Relevant section from the Java issue tracker ([JEP 368: Text Blocks (Second
> Preview)|https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8231623]):
> {quote}
> {quote}
> This isn't a breaking change since:
> * illegal escape sequences are currently an error for single and triple
> (multi-line) single/double quoted strings
> * slashy and dollar slashy strings ignore backslash escape sequences (apart
> from special cases)
> The use case cited in Java is to allow explicit indication of spaces at the
> end of a line in a multi-line string. This is then explicit for human readers
> or editors that might auto-remove trailing spaces. It becomes more important
> in recent versions of Java with auto-removal of incidental whitespace in
> multi-line strings.
> The only -ve I can see is regex users who might get regex \s mixed up with
> this new escape. But we already have that issue for \b (backspace in normal
> string vs word boundary in regex).
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