Strings are instances of the string type. String literals are defined within double quotes.

Strings allow a rich set of escape sequences, including Unicode code points and interpolations.

CUE also supports multi-line strings, enclosed between a pair of triple quotes ("""). The opening quotes of a multi-line string must be immediately followed by a newline, and the closing quotes must be on a line by themselves, optionally preceded by whitespace.

a: "\U0001F60E" // A 21-bit Unicode character.
b: """
	This is a
	multi-line string \(a)
	"""

$ cue export file.cue
{
    "a": "😎",
    "b": "This is a\nmulti-line string 😎"
}

Any whitespace prefix before the closing quotes of a multi-line string must also be the prefix for all non-empty lines between the quotes. The whitespace prefix is removed from all lines in the string, and it is an error for a non-empty line to start with any other characters.