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<div><h1>" -- delineate a string with quotation marks</h1>
<div><p>This method for entering a string involves the use of backslashes as escape characters.</p>
<pre> \n newline
\f form feed
\r return
\\ \
\" "
\t tab
\xxx ascii character with octal value xxx
\uxxxx unicode character with hex value xxxx, encoded with utf-8</pre>
<table class="examples"><tr><td><pre>i1 : " \" \f \r \\ \t \013 \u4f60 "
o1 = "
\ 你 </pre>
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<tr><td><pre>i2 : ascii oo
o2 = {32, 34, 32, 12, 32, 13, 32, 92, 32, 9, 32, 11, 32, 228, 189, 160, 32}
o2 : List</pre>
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<tr><td><pre>i3 : utf8 ooo
o3 = {32, 34, 32, 12, 32, 13, 32, 92, 32, 9, 32, 11, 32, 20320, 32}
o3 : List</pre>
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<div class="single"><h2>See also</h2>
<ul><li><span><a href="___String.html" title="the class of all strings">String</a> -- the class of all strings</span></li>
<li><span><a href="__sl_sl_sl.html" title="delineate a string with slashes">///</a> -- delineate a string with slashes</span></li>
<li><span><a href="_ascii.html" title="ASCII character conversion">ascii</a> -- ASCII character conversion</span></li>
<li><span><a href="_utf8.html" title="encode and decode unicode utf-8-encoded strings">utf8</a> -- encode and decode unicode utf-8-encoded strings</span></li>
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