String literals

String literals are delimited by "", '' or «».

Examples:

"hello"
'hello'
«hello»

Escape characters:

  • \' : '
  • \" : "
  • \» : »
  • \n : backline
  • \t : tab
  • \\ : backslash
  • \xAA : unicode character number AA (hex)
  • \uAAAA : unicode character number AAAA (hex)
  • \UAAAAAAAA : unicode character number AAAAAAAA (hex)
  • \N{NAME} : unicode character with name NAME. Returns SyntaxError if it doesn’t exist.

Note

The backslash isn’t left if the next character is not recognised (example: "\/" is the same as "/", and not "\\/")

Examples:

'I\'m a string literal'
"He said: \"'I'm a string literal'\""
"\\ backslashes, \t tabs and \n backlines"
«This string has a \N{NO BREAK SPACE}»
"\N{Latin Small Letter C with Cedilla}: \xe7"
"\N{Greek Small Letter Eta with Dasia and Oxia and Ypogegrammeni}: \u1F95"
"This is Person Shrugging (🤷): \U0001f937"

Note

You can use the meta nbspBetweenFrenchGuillemets to be forced to use a no-break-space or a narrow-no-break-space after « and before ». These NBSP are not counted in the string and this does not affect the other string delimiters.