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<h4 class="subsubsection">3.6.1.2 Characters</h4>

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<p>A single character may be written as a single quote immediately
followed by that character.  The same escapes apply to characters as
to strings.  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&rsquo;s byte-wide code for
that character.  <code>as</code> assumes your character code is ASCII:
<kbd>'A</kbd> means 65, <kbd>'B</kbd> means 66, and so on. 
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