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<h3><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://en.cppreference.com/mwiki/index.php?title=cpp/language/string_literal&amp;action=edit&amp;section=1" title="Edit section: Syntax">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline" id="Syntax">Syntax</span></h3>
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<td> <code><b>"</b></code> (<span class="t-spar">unescaped_character</span>|<span class="t-spar">escaped_character</span>)* <code><b>"</b></code>
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<td> <code><b>L</b></code> <code><b>"</b></code> (<span class="t-spar">unescaped_character</span>|<span class="t-spar">escaped_character</span>)* <code><b>"</b></code>
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<td> <code><b>u8</b></code> <code><b>"</b></code> (<span class="t-spar">unescaped_character</span>|<span class="t-spar">escaped_character</span>)* <code><b>"</b></code>
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<td> <code><b>u</b></code> <code><b>"</b></code> (<span class="t-spar">unescaped_character</span>|<span class="t-spar">escaped_character</span>)* <code><b>"</b></code>
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<td> <code><b>U</b></code> <code><b>"</b></code> (<span class="t-spar">unescaped_character</span>|<span class="t-spar">escaped_character</span>)* <code><b>"</b></code>
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<td> <span class="t-spar">prefix</span><span class="t-mark">(optional)</span> <code><b>R</b></code> <code><b>"</b></code><span class="t-spar">delimiter</span><code><b>(</b></code> <span class="t-spar">raw_character</span>* <code><b>)</b></code><span class="t-spar">delimiter</span><code><b>"</b></code>
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<div class="t-li1"><span class="t-li">1)</span> Narrow multibyte string literal. The type of an unprefixed string literal is <span class="t-c"><span class="mw-geshi cpp source-cpp"><span class="kw4">const</span> <span class="kw4">char</span><span class="br0">&#91;</span><span class="br0">&#93;</span></span></span>.</div>
<div class="t-li1"><span class="t-li">2)</span> Wide string literal. The type of a <span class="t-c"><span class="mw-geshi cpp source-cpp">L<span class="st0">&quot;...&quot;</span></span></span> string literal is <span class="t-c"><span class="mw-geshi cpp source-cpp"><span class="kw4">const</span> <span class="kw4">wchar_t</span><span class="br0">&#91;</span><span class="br0">&#93;</span></span></span>.</div>
<div class="t-li1"><span class="t-li">3)</span> UTF-8 encoded string literal. The type of a <span class="t-c"><span class="mw-geshi cpp source-cpp">u8<span class="st0">&quot;...&quot;</span></span></span> string literal is <span class="t-c"><span class="mw-geshi cpp source-cpp"><span class="kw4">const</span> <span class="kw4">char</span><span class="br0">&#91;</span><span class="br0">&#93;</span></span></span>.</div>
<div class="t-li1"><span class="t-li">4)</span> UTF-16 encoded string literal. The type of a <span class="t-c"><span class="mw-geshi cpp source-cpp">u<span class="st0">&quot;...&quot;</span></span></span> string literal is <span class="t-c"><span class="mw-geshi cpp source-cpp"><span class="kw4">const</span> <span class="kw4">char16_t</span><span class="br0">&#91;</span><span class="br0">&#93;</span></span></span>.</div>
<div class="t-li1"><span class="t-li">5)</span> UTF-32 encoded string literal. The type of a <span class="t-c"><span class="mw-geshi cpp source-cpp">U<span class="st0">&quot;...&quot;</span></span></span> string literal is <span class="t-c"><span class="mw-geshi cpp source-cpp"><span class="kw4">const</span> <span class="kw4">char32_t</span><span class="br0">&#91;</span><span class="br0">&#93;</span></span></span>.</div>
<div class="t-li1"><span class="t-li">6)</span> Raw string literal. Used to avoid escaping of any character, anything between the delimiters becomes part of the string, if <span class="t-spar">prefix</span> is present has the same meaning as described above.</div>
<h3><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://en.cppreference.com/mwiki/index.php?title=cpp/language/string_literal&amp;action=edit&amp;section=3" title="Edit section: Notes">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline" id="Notes">Notes</span></h3>
<p>The null character (<span class="t-c"><span class="mw-geshi cpp source-cpp"><span class="st0">'<span class="es5">\0</span>'</span></span></span>, <span class="t-c"><span class="mw-geshi cpp source-cpp">L<span class="st0">'<span class="es5">\0</span>'</span></span></span>, <span class="t-c"><span class="mw-geshi cpp source-cpp"><span class="kw4">char16_t</span><span class="br0">&#40;</span><span class="br0">&#41;</span></span></span>, etc) is always appended to the string literal: thus, a string literal <span class="t-c"><span class="mw-geshi cpp source-cpp"><span class="st0">&quot;Hello&quot;</span></span></span> is a <span class="t-c"><span class="mw-geshi cpp source-cpp"><span class="kw4">const</span> <span class="kw4">char</span><span class="br0">&#91;</span><span class="nu0">6</span><span class="br0">&#93;</span></span></span> holding the characters <span class="t-c"><span class="mw-geshi cpp source-cpp"><span class="st0">'H'</span></span></span>, <span class="t-c"><span class="mw-geshi cpp source-cpp"><span class="st0">'e'</span></span></span>, <span class="t-c"><span class="mw-geshi cpp source-cpp"><span class="st0">'l'</span></span></span>, <span class="t-c"><span class="mw-geshi cpp source-cpp"><span class="st0">'l'</span></span></span>, <span class="t-c"><span class="mw-geshi cpp source-cpp"><span class="st0">'o'</span></span></span>, and <span class="t-c"><span class="mw-geshi cpp source-cpp"><span class="st0">'<span class="es5">\0</span>'</span></span></span>.
</p><p>String literals placed side-by-side are concatenated at <a href="translation_phases.html" title="cpp/language/translation phases">translation phase 6</a> (after the preprocessor).  That is, <span class="t-c"><span class="mw-geshi cpp source-cpp"><span class="st0">&quot;Hello,&quot;</span> &#160;<span class="st0">&quot; world!&quot;</span></span></span> yields the (single) string <span class="t-c"><span class="mw-geshi cpp source-cpp"><span class="st0">&quot;Hello, world!&quot;</span></span></span>. If the two strings have the same encoding prefix (or neither has one), the resulting string will have the same encoding prefix (or no prefix).
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<tr class="t-rev t-since-cxx11"><td> If one of the strings has an encoding prefix and the other doesn't, the one that doesn't will be considered to have the same encoding prefix as the other.
<div dir="ltr" class="mw-geshi" style="text-align: left;"><div class="cpp source-cpp"><pre class="de1">L<span class="st0">&quot;Δx =&#160;%&quot;</span> <a href="../types/integer.html"><span class="kw177">PRId16</span></a> <span class="co1">// at phase 4, PRId16 expands to &quot;d&quot;</span>
                 <span class="co1">// at phase 6, L&quot;Δx =&#160;%&quot; and &quot;d&quot; form L&quot;Δx =&#160;%d&quot;</span></pre></div></div>
<p>If a UTF-8 string literal and a wide string literal are side by side, the program is ill-formed.
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<p>Any other combination of encoding prefixes may or may not be supported by the implementation. The result of such a concatenation is implementation-defined.
</p><p>String literals have static storage duration, and thus exist in memory for the life of the program.
</p><p>String literals can be used to <a href="aggregate_initialization.html" title="cpp/language/aggregate initialization">initialize character arrays</a>. If an array is initialized like <span class="t-c"><span class="mw-geshi cpp source-cpp"><span class="kw4">char</span> str<span class="br0">&#91;</span><span class="br0">&#93;</span> <span class="sy1">=</span> <span class="st0">&quot;foo&quot;</span><span class="sy4">;</span></span></span>, <span class="t-c"><span class="mw-geshi cpp source-cpp">str</span></span> will contain a copy of the string <span class="t-c"><span class="mw-geshi cpp source-cpp"><span class="st0">&quot;foo&quot;</span></span></span>.
</p><p>The compiler is allowed, <i>but not required</i>, to combine storage for equal or overlapping string literals. That means that identical string literals may or may not compare equal when compared by pointer.
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<div dir="ltr" class="mw-geshi" style="text-align: left;"><div class="cpp source-cpp"><pre class="de1"><span class="kw4">bool</span> b <span class="sy1">=</span> <span class="st0">&quot;bar&quot;</span> <span class="sy1">==</span> <span class="nu0">3</span><span class="sy2">+</span><span class="st0">&quot;foobar&quot;</span> <span class="co1">// could be true or false, implementation-defined</span></pre></div></div>
<p>Attempting to modify a string literal results in <i>undefined behavior</i>: they may be stored in read-only storage (such as <code>.rodata</code>) or combined with other string literals:
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<div dir="ltr" class="mw-geshi" style="text-align: left;"><div class="cpp source-cpp"><pre class="de1"><span class="kw4">const</span> <span class="kw4">char</span><span class="sy2">*</span> pc <span class="sy1">=</span> <span class="st0">&quot;Hello&quot;</span><span class="sy4">;</span>
<span class="kw4">char</span><span class="sy2">*</span> p <span class="sy1">=</span> <span class="kw1">const_cast</span><span class="sy1">&lt;</span><span class="kw4">char</span><span class="sy2">*</span><span class="sy1">&gt;</span><span class="br0">&#40;</span>pc<span class="br0">&#41;</span><span class="sy4">;</span>
p<span class="br0">&#91;</span><span class="nu0">0</span><span class="br0">&#93;</span> <span class="sy1">=</span> <span class="st0">'M'</span><span class="sy4">;</span> <span class="co1">// undefined behavior</span></pre></div></div>
<p>In C, string literals are of type <span class="t-c"><span class="mw-geshi cpp source-cpp"><span class="kw4">char</span><span class="br0">&#91;</span><span class="br0">&#93;</span></span></span>, and can be assigned directly to a (non-const) <span class="t-c"><span class="mw-geshi cpp source-cpp"><span class="kw4">char</span><span class="sy2">*</span></span></span>. C++03 allowed it as well (but deprecated it, as literals are <span class="t-c"><span class="mw-geshi cpp source-cpp"><span class="kw4">const</span></span></span> in C++). C++11 no longer allows such assignments without a cast.
</p><p>A string literal is not necessarily a C string: if a string literal has embedded null characters, it represents an array which contains more than one string.
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<div dir="ltr" class="mw-geshi" style="text-align: left;"><div class="cpp source-cpp"><pre class="de1"><span class="kw4">const</span> <span class="kw4">char</span><span class="sy2">*</span> p <span class="sy1">=</span> <span class="st0">&quot;abc<span class="es5">\0</span>def&quot;</span><span class="sy4">;</span> <span class="co1">// std::strlen(p) == 3, but the array has size 8</span></pre></div></div>
<p>If a valid hex digit follows a hex escape in a string literal, it would fail to compile as an invalid escape sequence, but string concatenation can be used as a workaround:
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<div dir="ltr" class="mw-geshi" style="text-align: left;"><div class="cpp source-cpp"><pre class="de1"><span class="co1">//const char* p = &quot;\xfff&quot;; // error: hex escape sequence out of range</span>
<span class="kw4">const</span> <span class="kw4">char</span><span class="sy2">*</span> p <span class="sy1">=</span> <span class="st0">&quot;<span class="es2">\xff</span>&quot;</span><span class="st0">&quot;f&quot;</span><span class="sy4">;</span> <span class="co1">// OK: the literal is const char[3] holding {'\xff','f','\0'}</span></pre></div></div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="mw-geshi" style="text-align: left;"><div class="cpp source-cpp"><pre class="de1"><span class="co2">#include &lt;iostream&gt;</span>
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<span class="kw4">char</span> array1<span class="br0">&#91;</span><span class="br0">&#93;</span> <span class="sy1">=</span> <span class="st0">&quot;Foo&quot;</span> <span class="st0">&quot;bar&quot;</span><span class="sy4">;</span>
<span class="co1">// same as</span>
<span class="kw4">char</span> array2<span class="br0">&#91;</span><span class="br0">&#93;</span> <span class="sy1">=</span> <span class="br0">&#123;</span> <span class="st0">'F'</span>, <span class="st0">'o'</span>, <span class="st0">'o'</span>, <span class="st0">'b'</span>, <span class="st0">'a'</span>, <span class="st0">'r'</span>, <span class="st0">'<span class="es5">\0</span>'</span> <span class="br0">&#125;</span><span class="sy4">;</span>
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Hello
World
)foo&quot;</span><span class="sy4">;</span>
<span class="co1">//same as</span>
<span class="kw4">const</span> <span class="kw4">char</span><span class="sy2">*</span> s2 <span class="sy1">=</span> <span class="st0">&quot;<span class="es1">\n</span>Hello<span class="es1">\n</span>World<span class="es1">\n</span>&quot;</span><span class="sy4">;</span>
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<span class="kw4">int</span> main<span class="br0">&#40;</span><span class="br0">&#41;</span>
<span class="br0">&#123;</span>
    <a href="../io/cout.html"><span class="kw1481">std::<span class="me2">cout</span></span></a> <span class="sy1">&lt;&lt;</span> array1 <span class="sy1">&lt;&lt;</span> <span class="st0">'<span class="es1">\n</span>'</span> <span class="sy1">&lt;&lt;</span> array2 <span class="sy1">&lt;&lt;</span> <span class="st0">'<span class="es1">\n</span>'</span><span class="sy4">;</span>
&#160;
    <a href="../io/cout.html"><span class="kw1481">std::<span class="me2">cout</span></span></a> <span class="sy1">&lt;&lt;</span> s1 <span class="sy1">&lt;&lt;</span> s2<span class="sy4">;</span>
<span class="br0">&#125;</span></pre></div></div>
<p>Output:
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<div dir="ltr" class="mw-geshi" style="text-align: left;"><div class="text source-text"><pre class="de1">Foobar
Foobar
&#160;
Hello
World
&#160;
Hello
World</pre></div></div> 
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