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2.2.4 Single Quote String

This is similar to the shell single-quote string. However, escapes \ are honored before another escape, single quotes ' and hash characters #. This latter is done specifically to disambiguate lines starting with a hash character inside of a quoted string. In other words,

 
foo = '
#endif
';

could be misinterpreted by the definitions scanner, whereas this would not:

 
foo = '
\#endif
';


As with the double quote string, a series of these, even intermixed with double quote strings, will be concatenated together.



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