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 ### Setting the comment body from a file
 
 This example shows how file content can be read into a variable and passed to the action.
-The content must be [escaped to preserve newlines](https://github.community/t/set-output-truncates-multiline-strings/16852/3).
 
 ```yml
       - id: get-comment-body