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CATC M ERLIN ’ S W AND 2.00 C HAPTER D
User’s Manual CATC Scripting Language
Hexadecimal numbers must be preceded by 0x: 0x2A, 0x54,
0xFFFFFF01
Octal numbers must begin with 0: 0775, 017, 0400
Decimal numbers are written as usual: 24, 1256, 2
Binary numbers are denoted with 0b: 0b01101100, 0b01,
0b100000
Strings
String literals are used to represent text. A string consists of zero or more
characters and can include numbers, letters, spaces, and punctuation. An
empty string ("") contains no characters and evaluates to false in an
expression, whereas a non-empty string evaluates to true. Double quotes
surround a string, and some standard backslash (\) escape sequences are
supported.
Escape Sequences
These are the available escape sequences in CSL:
String Represented text
"Quote: \"This is a string
literal.\"" Quote: "This is a string
literal."
"256" 256 **Note that this does not represent the
integer 256, but only the characters that make up the
number.
"abcd!$%&*" abcd!$%&*
"June 26, 2001" June 26, 2001
"[ 1, 2, 3 ]" [ 1, 2, 3 ]
Character Escape Sequence Example Output
backslash \\ "This is a backslash: \\" This is a backslash: \
double quote \" "\"Quotes!\"" "Quotes!"
horizontal tab \t "Before tab\tAfter tab" Before tab After tab
newline \n "This is how\nto get a
newline."
This is how
to get a newline.
single quote \' "\'Single quote\'" 'Single quote'