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_JSON Sugar and other Goodness_

# "Raw" Strings

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.

<!-- CUE editor -->
_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.
    """##
```

<!-- JSON result -->
`$ 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.
        """
}
```