Strings

Placeholder replacements

Placeholders can be used in strings to automatically substitute the values in the final string.

container = "cup"
liquid = "coffee"
string = "Filling the #{container} with #{liquid}..."

The above String - when printed - will say: Filling the cup with coffee...

You can even use Coffee-script inside these placeholders

sentence = "#{ 22 / 7 } is a decent approximation of π"

Block strings

Block strings can be used to hold formatted or indentation-sensitive text (or, if you just don’t feel like escaping quotes and apostrophes). The indentation level that begins the block is maintained throughout, so you can keep it all aligned with the body of your code.

html = """
       <strong>
         cup of coffeescript
       </strong>
       """

Multiline strings

Multiline strings are allowed in CoffeeScript. Lines are joined by a single space unless they end with a backslash. Indentation is ignored.

mobyDick = "Call me Ishmael. Some years ago --
  never mind how long precisely -- having little
  or no money in my purse, and nothing particular
  to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail
  about a little and see the watery part of the
  world..."