Trailing whitespace in text block

Reports text blocks with trailing whitespace characters. Trailing whitespace is considered incidental and will be stripped away by the Java compiler.

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TrailingWhitespacesInTextBlock

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This inspection depends on the Java feature 'Text block literals', which is available since Java 15.

New in 2021.1

Inspection Details
By default bundled with:	IntelliJ IDEA 2024.2, Qodana for JVM 2024.2,
Can be installed with plugin:	Java, 242.22892

Last modified: 11 September 2024