Groovy makes writing concise code easy,. We can use the continuation character (\) in a String to split up the definition over multiple lines.
def name ='mrhaki' def s = "This is not a multiline\ String, $name, but the continuation\ character (\\) makes it more readable." assert 'This is not a multiline String, mrhaki, but the continuation character (\\) makes it more readable.' == s