The creation of multiline string values is common in most programming languages, including Java. You might use them to create HTML code, a JSON or XML value, or an SQL query. But this seemingly simple task becomes complicated with the use of escape sequences (of newline or tab indicators).

To make your multiline string values readable, you might define parts of your string values on separate lines, using the concatenation operator (+) to glue them together. However, with increasing string lengths, this can become difficult to write and comprehend.

Let's outline the simple task of creating a multiline string, and then use multiple approaches to store it as a string value.