Character Literal

A Character literal is defined by a double quote, followed by any combination of characters, and terminated by a double quote.

Remarks

If a double quote is required as part of a character literal it is represented by two couble quotes. For example, to assign to a character field the value

He said "Come NOW!".
, The assignemnt would have to coded like this:
phrase = "He said ""Come NOW!""."

Examples

"ABC"
"The double-quotes "" is my faviorite character"
        

See Also

Character Data Type

Character Expression

Literals