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| <h5 class="subsubsection">9.56.2.1 Special Characters</h5> |
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| <p><a name="index-line-comment-character_002c-Z80-2673"></a><a name="index-Z80-line-comment-character-2674"></a>The semicolon ‘<samp><span class="samp">;</span></samp>’ is the line comment character; |
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| <p>If a ‘<samp><span class="samp">#</span></samp>’ appears as the first character of a line then the whole |
| line is treated as a comment, but in this case the line could also be |
| a logical line number directive (see <a href="Comments.html#Comments">Comments</a>) or a preprocessor |
| control command (see <a href="Preprocessing.html#Preprocessing">Preprocessing</a>). |
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| <p><a name="index-line-separator_002c-Z80-2675"></a><a name="index-statement-separator_002c-Z80-2676"></a><a name="index-Z80-line-separator-2677"></a>The Z80 assembler does not support a line separator character. |
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| <p><a name="index-location-counter_002c-Z80-2678"></a><a name="index-hexadecimal-prefix_002c-Z80-2679"></a><a name="index-Z80-_0024-2680"></a>The dollar sign ‘<samp><span class="samp">$</span></samp>’ can be used as a prefix for hexadecimal numbers |
| and as a symbol denoting the current location counter. |
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| <p><a name="index-character-escapes_002c-Z80-2681"></a><a name="index-Z80_002c-_005c-2682"></a>A backslash ‘<samp><span class="samp">\</span></samp>’ is an ordinary character for the Z80 assembler. |
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| <p><a name="index-character-constant_002c-Z80-2683"></a><a name="index-single-quote_002c-Z80-2684"></a><a name="index-Z80-_0027-2685"></a>The single quote ‘<samp><span class="samp">'</span></samp>’ must be followed by a closing quote. If there |
| is one character in between, it is a character constant, otherwise it is |
| a string constant. |
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