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Multiline value

See original GitHub issue

Is there any way to use a multi-line value in the .env file?

I’ve tried using double quotes, single quotes, backticks plus the \n char but I get the literal \n characters in the string when evaluated in Java code.

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Created 4 years ago
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david-arteagacommented, May 5, 2019

Yeah Base64 definitely gets the job done. Did not occur to me at the moment so ended up putting something like __NEWLINE__ in the .env file and then replacing it when reading the values in the Java code. Thanks for taking the time to go over the Java behavior! I do agree with you that it should stay the same as what System.getenv does. Maybe we could add something to the README there is a reference to the issue in the future. Coming in, I thought the newlines would just work and took me well over an hour to realize that was the issue I had, given the use case I had.

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cdimasciocommented, Apr 30, 2019

Thanks for the details. This is helpful. Will have a look

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