[TinkerTailor]

I had a lecture today where my professor was discussing the use of concatenation with strings in Java.
This was the sample code he discussed:

public class Roses {
    /**
     * Prints a poem (of sorts) on multiple lines.
     * @param args unused
     */
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.out.println("Roses are red,\n\tViolets are blue,\n"            /* line1 */
                + "Sugar is sweet,\n\tBut I have \"commitment issues\",\n\t"  /* line2 */
                + "So I'd rather just be friends\n\tAt this point in our "    /* line3 */
                + "relationship.");
    }
}

When I asked him about concatenating lines 1-3, I wanted to know if the style required you to concatenate them when entering to a new line in the IDE or if the string would carry on without. His answer was a bit cryptic, so I wanted to ask if you can break up a single string onto multiple lines without concatenation in Java...or if you have to do that?

Thank you

[pbl]

You can always put a long String on a very long line or "aaaa" + "bbbbb"

[macosxnerd101]

When you end a String and begin a new one, you have to concatenate them in the context of something like a println(). I think maybe certain IDEs don't force you to end the String before moving to a new line. Others do.

[TinkerTailor]

Thanks for the really quick replies. This is going to be something to keep in mind as I continue down the path to learning Java.

[pbl]

In Eclipse if you type

String x = "asasasasas<cr>

the IDE displays

String x = "asasasasas"
+ "

[GregBrannon]

Some questions are best answered through experimentation, especially when the results may be dependent on the observer's or test subject's environment. Try the various options in your development environment and see what happens.