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• the dollar sign is the character delimiter ($)
• Syntax is the symbol pair of: character_delimiter character e.g., $X
• Character literals define objects that represent individual symbols of an alphabet.
• Characters are most commonly used as the elements of strings.
• see the Character class for character instance and class methods.
  • The Character class has methods which enable entry of non-keyboard-enterable characters (e.g., cr, tab)

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