Breaking a JavaScript String

JavaScript will allow you to break a statement into two lines:

var x =
"Hello World!";

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But, breaking a statement in the middle of a string will not work:

var x = "Hello
World!";

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You must use a "backslash" if you must break a statement in a string:

var x = "Hello \
World!";

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