Working with Text
Explore Kotlin's text handling features including string interpolation, multiline strings, and the trimIndent function. Understand how to manipulate text cleanly and efficiently in Kotlin applications by avoiding cumbersome concatenations and escape characters.
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We’ve already seen many examples of working with text. After all, it’s not possible to print Hello Kotlin without using a string, or at least it would be very awkward and inconvenient.
String interpolation
First, as we already know, Kotlin provides a nifty println() standard function that wraps the bulkier System.out.println command from Java.
But, more importantly, as in many other modern languages, Kotlin supports string interpolation using the ${} syntax. Let’s ...