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String constants, also known as string literals, are a special type of constants which store fixed sequences of characters. A string literal is a sequence of any number of characters surrounded by double quotes:
"This is a string."
The null string, or empty string, is written like "". A literal string is stored internally as the given sequence of characters plus a final null character. A null string is stored as a single null character.
The characters inside the double quotes can include escape sequences, e.g.
"\t\"Name\"\\\tAddress\n\n"
Adjacent string literals separated only by whitespace are concatenated during the parsing phase. For example:
"This is " "just"
" an example."
is an equivalent to
"This is just an example."
Line continuation with backslash
You can also use the backslash (\) as a continuation character to extend a string constant across line boundaries:
"This is really \
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