JSON Sugar and other Goodness
CUE does not support raw strings in the strictest sense. Instead it allows modifying the escape delimiter by requiring an arbitrary number of hash #
signs after the backslash by enclosing a string literal in an equal number of hash signs on either end.
This works for normal and interpolated strings. Quotes do not have to be escaped in such strings.
stringraw.cue:
msg1: #"The sequence "\U0001F604" renders as \#U0001F604."# msg2: ##""" A regular expression can conveniently be written as: #"\d{3}"# This construct works for bytes, strings and their multi-line variants. """##
$ cue eval stringraw.cue
msg1: "The sequence \"\\U0001F604\" renders as 😄." msg2: """ A regular expression can conveniently be written as: #\"\\d{3}\"# This construct works for bytes, strings and their multi-line variants. """