Declaring a looooong single line string in C#

Question

Is there a decent way to declare a long single line string in C#, such that it isn\'t impossible to declare and/or view the string in an editor?

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Answer 1

If you really want this long string in the code, and you really don't want to type the end-quote-plus-begin-quote, then you can try something like this.

string longString = @"Some long string, 
    with multiple whitespace characters 
    (including newlines and carriage returns)
    converted to a single space
    by a regular expression replace.";

longString = Regex.Replace(longString, @"\s+", " ");