String Literals

Strings are a sequence of characters enclosed in double quotes.

Example:

"Hello World!\n"

The escape sequences used to enter special characters into strings are shown in the Table below.

Escape sequences for strings.

Escape

Result

\n

new line

\t

tab

\\

\

\"

\ddd

Character represented by the 3 digit octal code ddd (where 0 ≤ d ≤ 7)