Ignore escape sequences in ASCII art
ascii-art, backslash, escaping, java
Solution
No, Java doesn't have anything like the "verbatim string literals" of C#. If you want to do ASCII art, consider putting it into a text file instead and loading that from the code.
Problem
For my command-line-interfaces it's often nice to have a little ASCII art in the beginning, but those often contain many backslashes. For example: ``` System.out.println(" _____ _______ _____ _ __ "); System.out.println(" / ____|__ __|/\ / ____| |/ / "); System.out.println("| (___ | | / \ | | | ' / "); System.out.println(" \___ \ | | / /\ \| | | < "); System.out.println(" ____) | | |/ ____ \ |____| . \ "); System.out.println("|_____/ |_/_/ \_\_____|_|\_\ "); ``` But since every `\` needs to be a `\\` this often looks very ugly in code and it's very hard to find/fix an error in the 'font'. Is there a way to tell Java NOT to use escape sequences?