Strings

<#779#><#779#> string constants allow the insertion of arbitrary characters by encoding them as escape sequences, introduced by a backslash (<#780#><#780#>). The valid escape sequences are shown in Table 2. For instance, the string


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is the string consisting of the characters <#786#>a<#786#>, <#787#>b<#787#>,<#788#>space<#788#>, <#789#>c<#789#>, <#790#>newline<#790#>, <#791#>d<#791#> and <#792#>e<#792#>.


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Sequence Character inserted
b Backspace
e Escape
n Newline
t Horizontal Tab
n Carriage Return
0abc ASCII character with octal value abc
;SPMlt;newline;SPMgt; None (permits to enter a string on several lines)
;SPMlt;other;SPMgt; ;SPMlt;other;SPMgt;
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