I was looking to use the `String.replace` function...

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[Stylianos Gakis]

I was looking to use the String.replace function to replace some text. Specifically there was a place where this shows:

"""
  """

And I’d just like to replace it with:

"""

I was looking to use a triple quote String as I really like how I don’t need to escape stuff in there because it confuses me, but then I end up in this situation where I can’t really match a “”" inside it as it closes the string 😅 Is my only solution here to not use triple quotes since I can’t escape a “”" in there probably right? With a “\”\“\”\n \“\”\“” string instead?

[Sam]

A simple compromise would be to define a constant containing the `"""`:

const val qqq = "\"\"\""
val x = """$qqq
  $qqq"""
println(x)

[Sam]

I'm sure there are better solutions, that's just something that came to mind

[ephemient]

you can avoid the inner """ with

val x = """
""${'"'}
  ""${'"'}
                """

as well, but in this case I'd find Sam's solution or

val x = """
qqq
  qqq
                """.replace('q', '"')

to be cleaner

[Stylianos Gakis]

Very interesting workarounds, both of them! Such a weird problem to stumble upon, but I guess properly parsing this would just be impossible with how I initially wanted it to look like.