A string expression resolves to a series of characters, and you specify such an expression in various situations; for example, on the right side of an assignment statement. The single operand that constitutes a string expression may be any of these:
myString = "Web" + "Sphere";
Although an item or return value can contain Unicode characters, a literal cannot.
Any character preceded with the escape character (\) is included in the string expression. In particular, you can use the escape character to include the following characters in a literal, item, or return value:
Examples are as follows:
myString = "He said, \"Escape while you can!\""; myString2 = "Is a backslash (\\) needed?";
An error occurs if a literal has no ending quote mark:
myString3 = "Escape is impossible\";
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Items
Expressions
Logical expressions
Numeric expressions
Operators and precedence
Primitive types
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