Character and string Literals
This lesson explains character and string literals, how they are used and what their types are.
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Character literals
Character literals are specified within single quotes as in ‘a’, ‘\n’, ‘\x21’, etc.
As the character itself
The character may be typed directly using the keyboard or copied from a separate text: ‘a’, ‘ş’.
As the character specifier
The character literal may be specified using a backslash
character followed by a special character. For example, the backslash character itself can be specified by \\. The following character specifiers are accepted:
As the extended ASCII character code
Character literals can also be specified by their ...