Clarifications regarding two of the listed string literal rules #34192
Description
I believe this document is good overall but can use a few clarifications:
Both opening and closing quote characters must be on their own line.
Whitespace only lines following the opening quote are included in the string literal.
What does "On their own line" mean?
The code example immediately preceding this rule begins with:
var xml = """
Are those quotes "on their own line" despite being on the same line as the variable declaration?
Either way, is the whitespace that follows that initial line included in the string literal?
var xml = """ // Is this whitespace included in the string literal? This is a "whitespace only line"
<element attr="content">
<body>
</body>
</element>
""";
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- ID: 62bd57d5-0e7d-4355-0689-4b6b90ab4057
- Version Independent ID: 5737c986-9b06-9444-f7bc-893607d390d7
- Content: Raw string literals - '''
- Content Source: docs/csharp/language-reference/tokens/raw-string.md
- Product: dotnet-csharp
- Technology: csharp-language-reference
- GitHub Login: @BillWagner
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