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String Literals

CUE strings allow a richer set of escape sequences than JSON.

CUE also supports multi-line strings, enclosed by a pair of triple quotes """. The opening quote must be followed by a newline. The closing quote must also be on a newline. The whitespace directly preceding the closing quote must match the preceding whitespace on all other lines and is removed from these lines.

Strings may also contain interpolations.

stringlit.cue 

// 21-bit unicode characters
a: "\U0001F60E" // 😎

// multiline strings
b: """
    Hello
    World!
    """

$ cue export stringlit.cue 

{
    "a": "😎",
    "b": "Hello\nWorld!"
}