Jira (PUP-3773) File content's literal trailing newline is stripped

[Henrik Lindberg (JIRA)]

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Henrik Lindberg commented on PUP-3773   Re: File content's literal trailing newline is stripped Double quoted strings do not have a mechanism for escaping line ends to the effect that they are not included in the resulting string (i.e. 'line continuation'). In the example, the backslash newline sequence simply means newline. The same result is produced without the backslash as strings in puppet can extend over multiple lines and will include the line endings. In 4.0.0 (and in 3x with --parser future) you can use Puppet Heredoc to get more control over the string, including line-continuations. The escapes are controlled by using flags in the heredoc (the \L in the opening tag turns on line continuation), and you can control where the left margin which enables indenting it and removing the white space (margin) on the left side - as in this example. content => @(END/L), This is the content. It contains Pump\ ernickel split in the source, but joined in the result. The white space to the left is removed by setting the margin with a | (pipe) before the end tag. | END ensure => file Hope that helps. We have no plans to add line continuation to single or double quoted strings. Add Comment   This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.10#6340-sha1:7ea293a) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-bugs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-bugs@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.