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• the string literal is a single quote (')
• a string is a sequence of characters surrounded by the string delimiter
• to embed a string delimiter character within the string, double it ('')
• an empty string (just the two string delimiters ['']) has a size of zero

 ''
 '' size 
          0

 'ABC'

 'a23''A12'