MATLAB: Creating a string scalar with line continuation

Question

I'm passionately against breaking the 80'ish character width limit in code files. Therefore, I use line continuation ellipses heavily. I recently realized I can't find a (nice/non-redundant) way to create a string scalar with a line continuation.

myStr = ["Hello this is an extremely long sentence that would go ", ...
         "beyond my 80-character limit."];

Results in a 1×2 string array. Obviously,

myStr = string(['Hello this is an extremely long sentence that ', ...
                'would go beyond my 80-character limit.'])

gives me the desired output, but it feels redundant creating a char array then converting to a string array.

Any thoughts?

Answer 1

Replace the comma with a +