title: Building a large string in vb.net
body: <p>I have a form that has 3 Tabs and a user will populate dropdowns on the form and then press save.</p>
  
  <p>I then write the string to a text file with a separator between each answer, is there a better way of doing it other than what I have done below?</p>
  
  <pre><code>Dim tesstring As String = " test " &amp; _
           Separator &amp; _
           answer1 &amp; _
           Separator &amp; _
           answer2 &amp; _
           Separator &amp; _
           answer 3 &amp; _
           Separator &amp; _
           answer4 &amp; _
           Separator &amp; _
           answer5 &amp; _
           Separator &amp; _
           Combo_BS.SelectedItem.ToString.Substring(0, 6) &amp; _
           Separator &amp; _
           answer6 &amp; _
           Separator &amp; _
           answer7 &amp; _
           Separator &amp; _
           answer8 &amp; _
           Separator &amp; _
           answer9 &amp; _
           Separator &amp; _
           answer10 &amp; _
           Separator &amp; _
           answer11 &amp; _
           Separator &amp; _
           answer12 &amp; _
           Separator &amp; _
           answer13 &amp; _
           Separator &amp; _
           answer14 &amp; _
           Separator &amp; _
           answer15 &amp; _
           Separator &amp; _
           answer16 &amp; _
           Separator &amp; _
           answer17 &amp; _
           Separator &amp; _
           answer18 &amp; _
           vbCrLf
  </code></pre>