Strings and Characters

C2 has string and character like C and are very similar.

Character literals

Character literals are used like this:

char c = 'a';

String literals are used like this:

char* s = "the quick brown fox\n";

Multi-part strings are also supported:

const char[] Multi = "the"
    " quick"
    " brown"
    " fox\n";

No backspaces are required after each line.

C2 defines a number of escape sequences on a character or string literal: