Text and string literals
A text literal is text written directly between quotes in your source. An escape sequence starts with a backslash and lets you include special characters, such as a quote or newline. Try the escape examples.
Text literals use double quotes and stay on one physical line:
"Hello"
"Pliro 🐢"
""
Supported escapes are:
| Escape | Meaning |
|---|---|
\" |
Double quote |
\\ |
Backslash |
\n |
Newline character |
\r |
Carriage return character |
\t |
Tab character inside the resulting text |
Unknown escapes are errors. Pliro does not currently have single-quoted, raw,
triple-quoted, multiline, interpolated, or \u escape syntax. Direct Unicode
characters are allowed in source.
Text length, indexing, and iteration count Unicode code points rather than UTF-8
bytes. Text values are immutable.
Example
# language: en
let label = "Pliro 🐢"
say label
say length(label)