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