TextBlocks.java

// strings/TextBlocks.java
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// {NewFeature} Since JDK 15
// Poem: Antigonish by Hughes Mearns

public class TextBlocks {
  public static final String OLD =
    "Yesterday, upon the stair,\n" +
    "I met a man who wasn't there\n" +
    "He wasn't there again today\n" +
    "I wish, I wish he'd go away...\n" +
    "\n" +
    "When I came home last night at three\n" +
    "The man was waiting there for me\n" +
    "But when I looked around the hall\n" +
    "I couldn't see him there at all!\n";

  public static final String NEW = """
    Yesterday, upon the stair,
    I met a man who wasn't there
    He wasn't there again today
    I wish, I wish he'd go away...

    When I came home last night at three
    The man was waiting there for me
    But when I looked around the hall
    I couldn't see him there at all!
    """;
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    System.out.println(OLD.equals(NEW));
  }
}
/* Output:
true
*/