String Constants
String constants are used in programs for predefined texts. They can be stored in variables or directly send as a parameter to a procedure.
b$="World"
PRINT "Hello, "; b$ |
String constants are delimited with the character ". They cannot exceed a line of text and must therefore not contain a linefeed. Within a string each character represents itself with only few exceptions:
Written char | represented char |
¶ | Newline/Linefeed |
\¶ | ¶ |
\" | " |
\\ | \ |
\x?? | character represented by the hexadecimal ASCII-code ?? |
Character constants are delimited with the character '. They must contain exactly one character. In the case of a special character of the above table this character has to be written with two characters in your program, like
nl&='¶': ! newline character
cc&='\¶': ! the character ¶
sq&='\'': ! single quota
sp&='\x20': ! space |
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