character literal

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Contents 1 Syntax 2 Explanation 3 Type 4 Note

[edit] Syntax

' unescaped_character|escaped_character '	(1)
L ' unescaped_character|escaped_character '	(2)
u ' unescaped_character|escaped_character ' (since C++11)	(3)
U ' unescaped_character|escaped_character ' (since C++11)	(4)
' (unescaped_character|escaped_character)+ '	(5)

[edit] Explanation

unescaped_character

Any valid character

escaped_character

see escape sequences

[edit] Type

1. char
2. wchar_t
3. char16_t
4. char32_t
5. int

[edit] Note

Multicharacter literals (5) have implementation-defined value