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Literals

A literal is an exact representation of numeric or string values. Every number is a literal. Place single or double quotation marks around a string to identify it as a string literal. You can specify special characters within a literal string by prefacing them with a backslash as follows:

quotation mark	\’
double quotation mark	\”
tab	\t
carriage return	\r
new line	\n
string end	\0
backslash	\\

Examples

42
98.6
‘string literal’
“ count” 
“ \t this string starts with a tab and ends with a tab \t”

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