string concatenation with %s

[anonymous via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Monday, 30 March 2015 at 17:34:20 UTC, Suliman wrote:
>> string sss = format("foo"-", ""bar");
>>
>> It should be obvious now that you forgot to escape those 
>> double quotes.
>
> Thanks! Is there any way to stay string as is. without need of 
> it's escaping and so on?
>
> It's seems I have seen something like it in docs, but I am not 
> sure about it...

There are various other string literal forms [1] where you don't 
need to escape double quotes:

AlternateWysiwygString - backticks as delimiters:
`foo "-", "" bar`

DelimitedString - can use delimiters of choice, here parentheses:
q"(foo "-", "" bar)"

TokenString - for D code, probably not a good choice here, but 
works:
q{foo "-", "" bar}

Of course, as they're all delimiter based, there will always 
something you can't put into the string verbatim.

[1] http://dlang.org/lex.html#StringLiteral