Simple/Direct/Heredoc way of constructing a HTML string in Java
In python I can construct a HTML string without worrying about escaping special characters like < or " by simply enclosing the string in triple quotes like: html_string = """ <html> <body> <p>My text with "quotes" and whatnot!<p> </body> </html> """ Is there a similar way to do this in Java? It can't be done in Java like in Python. However if you are using Eclipse go to Window->Preferences->Java->Editor->Typing The last check box is "Escape text when pasting into a String literal". Check that. Now when you paste when your cursor is between quotation marks it'll be escaped. No, but some tools