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The Escape Character in Literal Strings

You can use the escape character (\) in literal strings. Instead of being parsed by the CA Process Automation language interpreter, the character you enter after the escape character is interpreted literally. If a semantic action is attached to an escape character, the interpreter converts the action to its character equivalent rather than performing the semantic action.

For example, say that you want to include a double quotation mark character within a string delimited by double quotation marks. Precede your quotation character with the escape character, so that the parser does not interpret it as the string delimiter:

\"

To include the backslash character in a string, precede it with the escape character:

\\

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