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Section 8,4,2: Character
A character constant is a string of printable ASCII characters
enclosed by delimiters. It takes one of the following forms:
'c1,c2,c3...cn'
"c1,c2,c3...cn"
where c is a printable character
The length of the character constant is the number of characters
between the delimiters. In the apostrophe format, two consecutive
apostrophes represent a single apostrophe. In the quotation mark
format, two consecutive quotation marks represent a single
quotation mark.
The length of a character constant must be in the range 1 to 2000.
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