a snippet to have multi lines string in javascript.

multiline.js

var multilineString	= (function(){ /*
  this
  is
  a
  multiline
  string.
*/}).toString().split('\n').slice(1, -1).join('\n');

console.log(multilineString);

At least this was useful to me in some way :) I didn't know that using the method toString from a function will return its internal comments. Interesting...

Thanks a lot for this snippet. It allows me to deal with unknown multi lines texts.

It does not work if inside the comment has the <script></script> tag

For me it worked good. I want it to have PGN chess games into a javascript variable. For sure having html tags, javascript, or php inside the string will cause problems, at least that you add the logic to escape them. For everything rest, this is good. Thanks for sharing.