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21.4.1 String Read Syntax

The read syntax for strings is an arbitrarily long sequence of characters enclosed in double quotes ("). ¹ If you want to insert a double quote character into a string literal, it must be prefixed with a backslash \ character (called an escape character).

The following are examples of string literals:

"foo"
"bar plonk"
"Hello World"
"\"Hi\", he said."

Footnotes

1. Actually, the current implementation restricts strings to a length of 2^24 characters.