[Haskell-cafe] multiline strings in haskell?

[Michael Vanier]

Yes, just like that ;-)  Thanks!

Now if somebody has a string interpolation library, I'd be a pretty 
happy camper ;-)

Mike


> mvanier:
>> Is there any support for multi-line string literals in Haskell?  I've 
>> done a web search and come up empty.  I'm thinking of using Haskell to 
>> generate web pages and having multi-line strings would be very useful.
> 
> Do you mean like this:
> 
>     string = "     line one\n\
>              \   line two is here\n\
>              \   line three is this line\n"
> 
> 
> $ echo 'putStr string' | ghci A.hs
>      line one
>    line two is here
>    line three is this line
> 
> -- Don