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Multiline Strings

Section titled “Multiline Strings”

Preserving line breaks

Section titled “Preserving line breaks”
    // Multiline text preserving newlines
    let publicPEM = """
    -----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-----
    MIIBIjANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAAOCAQ8AMIIBCgKCAQEAlmhaYmZ2/VOPDPjyo1uv
    YaN++WeuxVAgXDyxwlU25LEywZfRJPGwoOGvM9NARHxj2haem/iA1sl0MqhsLo/N
    Io6M7rmalP2CtTA19tfUAfHuISJDOZ0fERlD4N6ExHfbVCVzWzVhNrpFxvEic+i0
    lyqhs1vk6aqLzPR6xjz+kRtuHvKudoyVXsD03IUa4hPc0Y16REeLYsgPUNGvHT8p
    BsisCOh2GIx7t0sZNWIMB3C2hHNjhQ5dPjhZhlBHYi2NJkrvMz/sjkcNu4XlDgr3
    qs+YbLAGZ4qwAiNRJTqLw6gAOrJeJAu1HhQGihBIQaW6wWNR+uQtvCbqXeSxSTE2
    SQIDAQAB
    -----END PUBLIC KEY-----
    """

Not preserving line breaks

Section titled “Not preserving line breaks”
    // Multiline text not preserving newlines
    let willNotPreserve = """
    Are we \
    on the same line?
    """
Environment:
Xcode 16.1
Swift 5.10
iOS 18.0