# Mutate multiline string

**URL:** <https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/mutate-multiline-string/12007>\
**Category:** Misc\
**Tags:** kind:question\
**Created:** [December 21, 2020, 11:44am UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/mutate-multiline-string/12007 "2020-12-21T11:44:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![bakkar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b3f665/32.png) [@bakkar](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/bakkar)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2020, 11:44am UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/mutate-multiline-string/12007/1 "2020-12-21T11:44:06Z")

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I am trying to add a multiline string into the database but I cannot seem to find a way how to do it.

I tried using ````

```auto
{
  set {
    _:ms <MultilineString> `
    				This is 
    				a multiline string
    						` .
  }
}

```

error:

```auto
{
  "name": "t",
  "url": "http://localhost:8080/mutate?commitNow=true",
  "errors": [
    {
      "message": "while lexing _:ms <MultilineString> ` at line 1 column 22: Invalid input: ` at lexText",
      "extensions": {
        "code": "ErrorInvalidRequest"
      }
    }
  ]
}

```

With " "

```auto
{
  set {
    _:ms <MultilineString> "
    				This is 
    				a multiline string
    						" .
  }
}

```

```auto
{
  "name": "t",
  "url": "http://localhost:8080/mutate?commitNow=true",
  "errors": [
    {
      "message": "while unquoting: invalid syntax",
      "extensions": {
        "code": "ErrorInvalidRequest"
      }
    }
  ]
}

```

How am I able to store a multiline text?

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**Author:** ![MichelDiz](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex007/user_avatar/discuss.dgraph.io/micheldiz/32/11873_2.png) [@MichelDiz](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/MichelDiz)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2020, 1:18pm UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/mutate-multiline-string/12007/2 "2020-12-21T13:18:51Z")

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Dgraph’s parser doesn’t supports multiline. You have to use JSON escaping on your end.

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**Author:** ![bakkar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b3f665/32.png) [@bakkar](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/bakkar)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2020, 1:23pm UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/mutate-multiline-string/12007/3 "2020-12-21T13:23:50Z")

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Ok thanks,

In the meantime I am escaping the \n in c# and it works for me.

```auto
@" 
    	This is 
    	a multiline string
".Replace(Environment.NewLine, "\\n");

```

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex007/uploads/dgraph/original/2X/2/2b38fdece2abe5814f2e51bee69d1e67fc304b0a.png) [@system](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2021, 5:23am UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/mutate-multiline-string/12007/4 "2021-02-01T05:23:58Z")

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