A question about an article appeared in Oracle Blog by the title "Text Blocks Come to Java"

[Brian Goetz]

I agree, this article seems to be incorrectly conflating text blocks with an earlier _raw strings_ proposal.

> On Oct 30, 2019, at 11:50 AM, Karim Ourrai <karim.ourrai at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello everyone.
> I have a question about an article written by Mala Gupta in the Oracle Blog about "Text Blocks Come to Java"
> https://blogs.oracle.com/javamagazine/text-blocks-come-to-java
> In the section Ease of Working with Multiline Values
> She wrote this
> A regex usually includes many special characters. When you wrote one as a String value prior to Java 13, you needed to escape some of those special characters—making it difficult to write, read, or understand such expressions. Here’s an example, prior to text blocks, which stores the regex [0-9]{3}\-[0-9]{4}:
> String java12OrBeforeRegex = "[0-9]{3}\\t-[0-9]{4}";
> With text blocks, you can define the same regex as follows:
> String java13Regex = """
> [0-9]{3}\t-[0-9]{4}""";
> I couldn’t find anything about this in https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/355
> Because in the third section it said 
>  any escape sequences in the content are interpreted. 
> Wouldn’t that means that java13Regex should be wrtten like this
> String java13Regex = """
> [0-9]{3}\\t-[0-9]{4}""";
> 
> Best regards