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Introduced in the 1977 ANSI M[UMPS] language standard.
This metalanguage symbol represents any character (from the 94 printable ASCII characters) that is not the quote character ($Char(34) or """").
Introduced in the 1977 ANSI M[UMPS] language standard.
This metalanguage symbol represents a string literal value. A string literal value is any sequence of printable characters (see the metalanguage symbol nonquote) enclosed in quotes. If the quote character itself is to occur within the string literal value, it must be entered twice adjacently.
Value | String literal notation |
---|---|
abcde | "abcde" |
ab"cde | "ab""cde" |
empty string | "" |
" | """" |
"" | """""" |
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