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Line Continuations

It is sometimes useful to be able to break a long line of text over several lines without the linebreaks being treated as whitespace.

You can do this by putting an underscore at the end of a line, preceded by a space.

Example

These two statements are treated identically:

(1)
<pre concordion:assertEquals="#firstName">Fred Flintstone</pre>
(2)
<pre concordion:assertEquals="#firstName">Fred Flint _
stone</pre>
#firstName Success Failure
Fred Flintstone (1), (2)  
Fred Flint stone   (1), (2)
Fred Flint _ stone   (1), (2)