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Alphanumeric literal

Any series of characters including blanks, surrounded with delimiters. The delimiters can be double quotes (") or apostrophes ('). The starting and ending delimiter must be the same character. Some examples of valid alphanumeric literals are:

"12345"
'CITY'
"REENTER CODE"
'STATE'
'COUNTY #124‑A***'
"***ERROR***"
"O'REILLY, SCHWARTZ, & SMITH ASSOCIATES"