Translations:User:Psychoslave//Lua reference manual translation stub/1280/en

Literal strings can also be defined using long brackets. An opening long bracket consists of an opening square bracket followed by zero or more equal signs followed by another opening square bracket, e.g.,  , or. The opening long bracket must be matched by the corresponding closing long bracket, e.g.,  , or. As a special case, if an opening long bracket is immediately followed by a newline then the newline is not included in the string, but a newline just before the closing long bracket is kept. Strings delimited by long brackets do not interpret escape sequences.