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There are two types of strings defined by a stream of characters inside either single quotes ' and ' or double quotes " and "
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Single quoted strings are the simplest but probably least often used.
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Inside such strings ALL characters including newlines are treated as they look except that ' must be represented as \' and \ as \\.
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\n does NOT represent a newline.
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Example: 'don\'t' is the 5 character don't
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As in C ALL strings are stored as zero byte terminated byte streams so that
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'' and "" are both stored internally as one byte 00 (octal zero)
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