A string literal or anonymous string[1] is a literal for a string value in the source code of a computer program. Modern programming languages commonly use a quoted sequence of characters, formally "bracketed delimiters", as in x = "foo", where "foo" is a string literal with value foo. Methods such as escape sequences can be used to avoid the problem of delimiter collision (issues with brackets) and allow the delimiters to be embedded in a string. There are many alternate notations for specifying string literals especially in complicated cases. The exact notation depends on the programming language in question. Nevertheless, there are general guidelines that most modern programming languages follow.
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is available in GCC, clang and tcc. C has stringliteral concatenation, meaning that adjacent stringliterals are concatenated at compile time; this allows...
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evaluate to a stringliteral, and the compiler concatenates adjacent stringliterals, the expression "%" PRId64 compiles to a single string. Macros include:...
code units were translated from the stringliteral, therefore such source code is not a stringliteral. Each string ends at the first occurrence of the...
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character in the string describing its pattern) is either a metacharacter, having a special meaning, or a regular character that has a literal meaning. For...
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character literal is to use a single quote (') for character literals, as contrasted by the use of a double quote (") for stringliterals. For example...
to the value of the stringliteral: char s[] = "hello world"; s[0] = 'H'; // equivalently, *s = 'H'; Even though stringliterals should not be modified...
sequence is a combination of characters that has a meaning other than the literal characters contained therein; it is marked by one or more preceding (and...
is used to terminate a character stringliteral." — ANSI/ISO 9899:1990 (the ANSI C standard), section 5.2.1 "A string is a contiguous sequence of characters...