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<h4 class="subsubsection">3.6.1.2 Characters</h4>
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<p>A single character may be written as a single quote immediately followed by
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that character. Some backslash escapes apply to characters, <code>\b</code>,
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<code>\f</code>, <code>\n</code>, <code>\r</code>, <code>\t</code>, and <code>\"</code> with the same meaning
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as for strings, plus <code>\'</code> for a single quote. So if you want to write the
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character backslash, you must write <kbd>'\\</kbd> where the first <code>\</code> escapes
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the second <code>\</code>. As you can see, the quote is an acute accent, not a grave
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accent. A newline
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immediately following an acute accent is taken as a literal character
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and does not count as the end of a statement. The value of a character
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constant in a numeric expression is the machine’s byte-wide code for
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that character. <code>as</code> assumes your character code is ASCII:
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<kbd>'A</kbd> means 65, <kbd>'B</kbd> means 66, and so on.
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