What’s wrong with Groovy multi-line String?

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As groovy doesn’t have EOL marker (such as ;) it gets confused if you put the operator on the following line

This would work instead:

def a = "test" +
  "test" +
  "test"

as the Groovy parser knows to expect something on the following line

Groovy sees your original def as three separate statements. The first assigns test to a, the second two try to make "test" positive (and this is where it fails)

With the new String constructor method, the Groovy parser is still in the constructor (as the brace hasn’t yet closed), so it can logically join the three lines together into a single statement

For true multi-line Strings, you can also use the triple quote:

def a = """test
test
test"""

Will create a String with test on three lines

Also, you can make it neater by:

def a = """test
          |test
          |test""".stripMargin()

the stripMargin method will trim the left (up to and including the | char) from each line

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