Literal Characters

Literal Characters

In any format specification, you can include literal characters. They will be output “as is” when formatting a value.

Symbols

A literal character is specified by one of the following methods:

\c Prefix the character with a back slash.

“abc” Enclose a string of characters in double quotes.

Any character that is not a special symbol or cannot be part of one, is considered as being a literal character.

Examples

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