Breaking up long strings on multiple lines in Ruby without stripping newlines

You can use \ to indicate that any line of Ruby continues on the next line. This works with strings too:

string = "this is a \
string that spans lines"

puts string.inspect

will output "this is a string that spans lines"

Maybe this is what you're looking for?

string = "line #1"\
         "line #2"\
         "line #3"

p string # => "line #1line #2line #3"

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