Gavin Wiggins

Strings in Swift

Written on November 12, 2022

A string in Swift is represented by characters wrapped with double quotation marks " ". Multiline strings are wrapped with three double quotation marks """ """. Use a backslash \ to ignore a line break in a multiline string.

// A string literal let a = "This is a string" // Multiline string let multi = """ This is an example of a multiline string """ // Prints the following: // This is an example // of a multiline // string // Multiline string with indentation let indented = """ The next line is indented from the left. """ // Prints the following: // The next line // is indented from the left. // Ignore line breaks in a multiline string let ignored = """ This is the first line \ which doesn't break. And this is the second line. """ // Prints the following: // This is the first line which doesn't break. // And this is the second line.