let s1 = '' This is an indented multi-line string literal. An amount of whitespace at the start of each line matching the minimum indentation of all lines in the string literal together will be removed. Thus, in this case four spaces will be stripped from each line, even though THIS LINE is indented six spaces. Also, empty lines don't count in the determination of the indentation level (the previous empty line has indentation 0, but it doesn't matter). ''; in s1