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Last updated at 1:38 am UTC on 17 January 2006
the
string literal
is a single quote (')
a string is a sequence of characters surrounded by the string delimiter
to embed a string delimiter character within the string, double it ('')
an empty string (just the two string delimiters ['']) has a size of zero
Examples
''
'ABC'
'a23''A12'