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String literal

A string literal or anonymous string is a literal for a string value in source code. Commonly, a programming language includes a string literal code construct that is a series of characters enclosed in bracket delimiters – usually quote marks. In many languages, the text "foo" is a string literal that encodes the text foo but there are many other variations.

Delimiter collision, Syntax & Escape sequences

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Delimiter collision

PascalBASICDCLSmalltalkSQL
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Syntax

QuotationPythonEmpty stringPostScriptM4
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Escape sequences

BackslashANSI CLexically analyzedC stringOctal
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String literal concatenation

Constant foldingStringizingArray typeOverloadedC preprocessor
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Syntax

Delimiter collision

Escape sequences

Multiline string literals

String literal concatenation

Different kinds of strings

String interpolation

Embedding source code in string literals

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String literal

Nodes93
Edges92
Triples80
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.021505
Components1

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String literal

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related to String interpolation · 9
String literal → For, In, Languages, Non-interpolated, Perl, Python, Ruby, This, Unix
related to Bracket delimited · 8
String literal → Dwayne, Hello, In Python, Johnson, Many, Quotation, The, When
related to String literal concatenation · 8
String literal → C/C, Java, Most, Notably, Perl, Python, Ruby, This
related to Delimiter collision · 6
String literal → For, Paired, Tcl, There, This, When
related to Delimiter quoting · 6
String literal → Any, Can, Escape, The, Then, They
related to Doubling up · 6
String literal → BASIC, DCL, Fortran, Pascal, Smalltalk, SQL
related to Declarative notation · 5
String literal → Advantages, For, FORTRAN, Hollerith, The
related to Escape sequences · 5
String literal → ANSI, Escape, Most, One, They
related to Raw strings · 5
String literal → Compare, DOS/Windows, Raw, The, This
related to Word delimited · 5
String literal → For, In, Perl, PHP, Some

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
quotesinstance ofMultiple quoting is particularly useful with regular expressions that contain usual delimiters0.80text
as this avoids needing to escape theminstance ofMultiple quoting is particularly useful with regular expressions that contain usual delimiters0.80text
String literalrelated to Bracket delimitedThe0.60section
String literalrelated to Bracket delimitedQuotation0.60section
String literalrelated to Bracket delimitedMany0.60section
String literalrelated to Bracket delimitedHello0.60section
String literalrelated to Bracket delimitedWhen0.60section
String literalrelated to Bracket delimitedIn Python0.60section
String literalrelated to Bracket delimitedDwayne0.60section
String literalrelated to Bracket delimitedJohnson0.60section
String literalrelated to Declarative notationThe0.60section
String literalrelated to Declarative notationFor0.60section

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