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Delimited series of characters that represent a string in code
A string literal or anonymous string is a literal for a string value in source code. Commonly, a programming language includes a string literal code construct that is a series of characters enclosed in bracket delimiters – usually quote marks. In many languages, the text "foo" is a string literal that encodes the text foo but there are many other variations. Wikipedia →
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