@@ -78,6 +78,10 @@ public class StringLiteralExpr extends LiteralStringValueExpr {
         return super.remove(node);
     }
 
+    public String asString() {
+        return value;
+    }
+
     @Override
     public StringLiteralExpr clone() {
         return (StringLiteralExpr) accept(new CloneVisitor(), null);
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package com.github.javaparser.ast.expr;

import com.github.javaparser.Range;
import com.github.javaparser.ast.AllFieldsConstructor;
import com.github.javaparser.ast.visitor.GenericVisitor;
import com.github.javaparser.ast.visitor.VoidVisitor;
import com.github.javaparser.utils.Utils;
import com.github.javaparser.ast.Node;
import com.github.javaparser.ast.visitor.CloneVisitor;
import com.github.javaparser.metamodel.StringLiteralExprMetaModel;
import com.github.javaparser.metamodel.JavaParserMetaModel;

/**
 * A literal string.
 * <br/><code>"Hello World!"</code>
 * <br/><code>"\"\n"</code>
 * <br/><code>"™"</code>
 * <br/><code>"💩"</code>
 *
 * @author Julio Vilmar Gesser
 */
public class StringLiteralExpr extends LiteralStringValueExpr {

    public StringLiteralExpr() {
        this(null, "empty");
    }

    @AllFieldsConstructor
    public StringLiteralExpr(final String value) {
        this(null, value);
    }

    /**
     * Utility method that creates a new StringLiteralExpr. Escapes EOL characters.
     */
    public static StringLiteralExpr escape(String string) {
        return new StringLiteralExpr(Utils.escapeEndOfLines(string));
    }

    public StringLiteralExpr(final Range range, final String value) {
        super(range, value);
    }

    @Override
    public <R, A> R accept(final GenericVisitor<R, A> v, final A arg) {
        return v.visit(this, arg);
    }

    @Override
    public <A> void accept(final VoidVisitor<A> v, final A arg) {
        v.visit(this, arg);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean remove(Node node) {
        if (node == null)
            return false;
        return super.remove(node);
    }

    @Override
    public StringLiteralExpr clone() {
        return (StringLiteralExpr) accept(new CloneVisitor(), null);
    }

    @Override
    public StringLiteralExprMetaModel getMetaModel() {
        return JavaParserMetaModel.stringLiteralExprMetaModel;
    }
}

That's not right, is it? This should have the same (un)escaping as `asChar()`. Interesting question: so what should `StringLiteralExpr(String)` do?