ILOG OPL Development Studio Language Reference Manual

IntroductionA string literal is zero or more characters enclosed in double (“) or single (’) quotes.Note: For C/C++ programmers: Except for the use of single quotes, string literals have thesame syntax as in C and C++.Here are examples of string literals:"My name is Hal"’My name is Hal’’"Hi there", he said’"3.14""Hello, world\n"In these examples, the first and second strings are identical.The backslash character \ can be used to introduce an escape sequence, which stands for acharacter which cannot be directly expressed in a string literal.Escape sequences in stringsEscape sequence\n\t\\\”\’\b\f\r\xhh\oooStands forNewlineTabBackslash character (\)Double quote (")Single quote (’)BackspaceForm feedCarriage returnThe character whose ASCII code is hh, where hh is a sequence of twohexadecimal digits.The character whose ASCII code is ooo, where ooo is a sequence of one, two,or three octal digits.Here are examples of string literals using escape sequences:222I L O G O P L D E V E L O P M E N T S T U D I O L A N G U A G ER E F E R E N C E M A N U A L