Java 13 - Text Block Methods

Java 12 introduces text blocks to handle multiline strings like JSON/XML/HTML etc and added new methods to String class to handle text blocks. It is a preview feature.

• stripIndent() - removes incidental white spaces from the start and end of the string.

• translateEscapes() - translate the escape sequences as per the string syntax.

• formatted() - similar to String format() method to support formatting in text block strings.

Example

Consider the following example −

ApiTester.java

public class APITester {

   public static void main(String[] args) {
	  String textBlockJSON = """
         {
            "name" : "%s",
            "RollNO" : "%s"
         }
         """.formatted("Mahesh", "32");
      System.out.println(textBlockJSON);
   }   
}

Compile and Run the program

$javac -Xlint:preview --enable-preview -source 13 APITester.java

$java --enable-preview APITester

Output

{
"Name" : "Mahesh",
"RollNO" : "32"
}
{
   "name" : "Mahesh",
   "RollNO" : "32"
}

Contains: true
indexOf: 15
Length: 45