# multi-line strings

**URL:** https://forum.kx.com/t/multi-line-strings/6829
**Category:** Community Support
**Tags:** kdb-and-q
**Created:** [December 17, 2010, 7:44am UTC](https://forum.kx.com/t/multi-line-strings/6829 "2010-12-17T07:44:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author: ![effbiae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecae2f/32.png) [@effbiae](https://forum.kx.com/u/effbiae)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2010, 7:44am UTC](https://forum.kx.com/t/multi-line-strings/6829/1 "2010-12-17T07:44:00Z")

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i’m pretty sure q doesn’t support multi-line strings,but what is the best way to express a long stringover many lines?eg. in c:"12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890""09876543210987654321098765432109876543210987654321"in q: “12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890”,"09876543210987654321098765432109876543210987654321"is there an escape for end of line? so i could:in q: “12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890”, \ "09876543210987654321098765432109876543210987654321"ta, jack.

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### Author: ![Attila](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Attila](https://forum.kx.com/u/Attila)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2010, 8:32am UTC](https://forum.kx.com/t/multi-line-strings/6829/2 "2010-12-17T08:32:00Z")

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there is nothing wrong with with ,

if it is that much data put in another file and read it  
? Attila