String delimiters

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Enclose literal strings in either:

1. A set of single quote marks,

• A set of double quote marks, or

• A set of square brackets

The following example simply assigns the string "literal text" to the variable xString:

xString = "literal text"

To use a string delimiter in a literal string, use a different set of delimiters to delimit the string. For example:

? [There are three string delimiters: the ', the ",] + " and the []"

Note that the literal string had to be broken up into two separate strings, because all three kinds of delimiters were used.