Literals

String literals may be enclosed in single or double quotes:

'sandra bullock'
"bruce willis"

Several consecutive literals are concatenated to a single string:

"john's" ' car'

evaluates to exaclty the same as

"john's car"

Literals must end before the end of line, so use the concatination feature for long literals having to be spread over several lines.

Special characters are introduced by a backslash: