Last Updated: February 25, 2016
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· fiveisprime

Use backslashes to span strings across multiple lines

Avoid ASI problems and lots of string concatenation for great good!

var longString = "this string is very \
    long and spans multiple lines, \
    but is still just a single string.";

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