Strings

Strings in BASIC! are written as any set of characters enclosed in quote (") characters. The quote characters are not part of the string. For example, "This is a string" is a string of 16 characters.

To include the quote character in a string, you must escape it with a backslash: \". For example:

Print "His name is \"Jimbo\" Jim Giudice."

prints: His name is "Jimbo" Jim Giudice.

Newline characters (a CR/LF, or carriage return/line feed, combination) may be inserted into a string with the escape sequence \n:

Print "Jim\nGiudice"

prints:

Jim
Giudice

You can use another escape sequence, \t, to put a TAB character into a string. To embed a backslash, escape it with another backslash: \\. Other special characters can be inserted using the CHR$() function.

Strings with numerical characters can be converted to BASIC! numbers using the VAL(<sexp>) function.

For the purposes of this documentation, strings that appear within a BASIC! program are called String Constants.