CS8998 when last character is double quote in raw string literal

[kasperk81]

compilation fails when last character is a double quote in raw string literal:

"hello \"there\"" // baseline: hello "there"
"""hello "there"""" // error CS8998: The raw string literal does not start with enough quote characters to allow this many consecutive quote characters as content.
"""hello "there" """ // allowed with (undesired) extra trailing space

[CyrusNajmabadi]

Correct. This is the design of raw strings. If you want to start or end with a quote you must use a multi line literal like:

Var v = """
     Hello "there"
     """;

[kasperk81]

thanks for highlighting it's a design decision. with your approach, it keeps the string length intact (no trailing space). that fixed my unit tests where i started using raw strings.

Console.WriteLine("""
Hello "there"
""");