Paste hell - how to stop Idea from inserting \n in strings?

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Dan Grammas
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Hi folks,

I'm trying to figure out how to stop Idea from inserting \n in strings which span multiple lines. Breaking up the string with "" + "" is fine, but inserting "\n" + "" is just wrong as now its breaking up stuff that is supposed to be on the same line.

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Note: This is a duplicate from 10 YEARS ago that was never addressed.   See 206965615-Paste-hell-how-to-stop-Idea-from-inserting-n-in-strings-

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Ethan Yin
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It is not reproducible from my side. Can you please attach a sample?
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Dan Grammas
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Thanks for the quick response!

In a java module I have

@Schema(description = "")

Between the quotes I am pasting londe description text from a PDF document

It ends up looking like this:

@Schema(description = "The ontologyinfo command allows the user to find ontology information. Information includes\n" +
        "description, id, synonyms and type of the ontology term.")

 

so splitting the line and adding the + is good but adding the '\n' is not.  I have noticed testing just now, this behavior only when pasting text cut from PDF documents?

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Ethan Yin
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That's because there is a line separator in the copied text.
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