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| <h5 class="subsubsection">3.6.1.2 Characters</h5> |
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| <p><a name="index-single-character-constant-166"></a><a name="index-character_002c-single-167"></a><a name="index-constant_002c-single-character-168"></a>A single character may be written as a single quote immediately followed by |
| that character. Some backslash escapes apply to characters, <code>\b</code>, |
| <code>\f</code>, <code>\n</code>, <code>\r</code>, <code>\t</code>, and <code>\"</code> with the same meaning |
| as for strings, plus <code>\'</code> for a single quote. So if you want to write the |
| character backslash, you must write <kbd>'\\</kbd> where the first <code>\</code> escapes |
| the second <code>\</code>. As you can see, the quote is an acute accent, not a grave |
| accent. A newline |
| immediately following an acute accent is taken as a literal character |
| and does not count as the end of a statement. The value of a character |
| constant in a numeric expression is the machine's byte-wide code for |
| that character. <samp><span class="command">as</span></samp> assumes your character code is ASCII: |
| <kbd>'A</kbd> means 65, <kbd>'B</kbd> means 66, and so on. |
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