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Simple Strings

A set of characters that begins with a non-null character and contains no commas, spaces, or quotes is a simple string. Simple strings do not need to be bounded by quotes. A simple string that is not bounded by quotes must be terminated by a space or a comma. The length of a simple string is the number of characters prior to the terminating space or comma. Enclosing a simple string in quotes does not change its length or value. The following examples show two ways to write the same simple string:

strings
'strings'

In each case, the length of the string is 7.