Character constants

A character constant may consist of one ASCII code character enclosed within the apostrophes. Also, you may specify the character by its hexadecimal value of exactly two hexadecimal digits preceded by characters '\x'.

Examples:

'A' 'a' '7' '$' '\x02' '\x88'

Special (control) character constants

        New line (line feed)              HL (LF)    '\n'

        Horizontal tabulation             HT         '\t'

        Vertical tabulation               VT         '\v'

        Backspacing                       BS         '\b'

        Carriage return                   CR         '\r'

        Form feed                         FF         '\f'

        Backslash                         \          '\\'

        Apostrophe                        '          '\''

        Quotation marks                   "          '\"'

        Zero character (null)               NUL        '\0'

Note. The character constants are considered to be the int-type data.