Depending on the programming language, escape codes for line breaks and such may be inserted within the string and executed as commands. Contrast with numeric literal. See string and escape code.

Unlike many other languages, JavaScript does not distinguish between integers and floating-point numbers. 42 and 3.14 are both Number types. BigInt, as its name suggests, only covers integers, and ...

For UTF-8 character encoding, C# 11 enables conversion of string literals containing only UTF-8 characters to their byte representation. UTF-8 is used in many scenarios, particularly on the web.

Me.txtErrorMessage.Text = String.Format("You must be in {statusLevel} status to update {operationTarget}.") Here's another string-related feature: multiline literals. In Visual Basic 14, you can split ...