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Specifying characters and strings

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Specifying characters and strings

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- [Instructor] To declare a single character literal in your code, sit the character between a pair of single quotes as shown here. For untypable values, like Enter or Tab, use an escape sequence. These characters, and yes, they're interpreted as a single character, start with a backslash and then some type of character code. You can also escape specific values as a single character, such as hexadecimal value 41, which is shown as \X41. Though multiple characters are used in these expressions, the escape sequence remains a single character value. This list shows common escape sequences for single characters. The new line is the one you see most often, which inserts the Enter key press into a string, or it can be used as a single character. If you want to specify a single quote character, you can use the backslash single quote within single quotes and string literals with double quotes inside must have the internal…

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